Author: Frances Barnes
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Visiting Ile de France
We’ll always have Paris, so explore the fabulous sights outside the capital, says Frances Barnes. Irma looks every inch a true Parisienne, beautiful, serious about her food and faultlessly groomed from head to – er, paw. Irma is a lioness, you see, one of a pride of amber-coloured Angolan lions currently enjoying a perfect leonine…
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Brittany, birthplace of Thalassotherapy
Confidently, arms outstretched, I thrust myself away from the poolside into the water, expecting the rest of me to follow. Seconds later legs and feet were flailing in the air at ear level and I was bobbing about near certain to collide with fellow bathers. Yes, you guessed it. I was in a thalasso pool…