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By using our site you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy For close to 30 years Air France and SNCF French Railways have been offering their customers a service that allows them to combine train and air travel in the same reservation Until now offered on 33 routes to/from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly (via Massy TGV station) the “Train + Air” service continues to grow with the addition today of eight additional routes to/from : This extension of the network increases the number of routes offered by Air France as part of the “Train + Air “service to 41 on departure from 22 train stations: Aix-en-Provence TGV customers have a single reservation for their entire journey and a guaranteed seat on the next available flight or TGV INOUI train their journey has been fully digitized: customers can now check in online at airfrance.com before departure Air France customers travelling in the La Première or Business cabin also travel in first class on SNCF trains Air France and KLM offer a combined ticket service on routes departing from Brussels-Midi station (to Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol) and Antwerp-Central (to Amsterdam Schiphol only) To find out more about Air France’s commitments to sustainability, visit corporate.airfrance.com/sustainable-development or follow us @AFnewsroom SNCF Voyageurs is the SNCF Group company dedicated to passenger rail transport It offers shared mobility and door-to-door solutions to meet passengers’ needs in terms of offer quality of service and respect for the environment It provides both everyday and long-distance mobility in France and Europe with : Transilien in Ile-de-France; TER in the regions; and TGV-Intercités (TGV INOUI Its online agency SNCF Connect is now France’s leading e-commerce site SNCF Voyageurs carries around 5 million passengers every day SNCF Voyageurs is a 100% public limited company Featured image credited to Fintan Horan-Stear This week has seen the inauguration of a major extension to the Vénissieux-Saint Priest combined road-rail terminal east of Lyon The facility is located in proximity to one of Europe’s main freight corridors and which has attracted public investment totalling 18.7 million euros Become a member of RailFreight Plus and get full access to all our premium content Log in Stuart Todd is a correspondent and frequent contributor for RailFreight.com The development of rolling highway services between Spain’s largest port in Algeciras and Zaragoza is a key step for the modal shift in the Iberian… The port of Valencia wants to implement a rolling highway service to the PLAZA terminal in Zaragoza one of the main logistics hubs in Spain.… The port of Tallinn found an agreement with the Estonian government for the sale of eight properties Poland announced major funding for rail equivalent to 43 billion euros Approximately 2,3 billion is going to come from the National Reconstruction Plan Log in through one of the following social media partners to comment Economy Class & Beyond 27/11/2023 by Kevincm This extension of the network increases the number of routes offered by Air France as part of the “Train + Air” service to 41 Aix-en-Provence gains double coverage from Lille with both Lille Europe and Lille Flanders served With the Air France “Train + Air” ticket combination passengers have a single reservation for their entire journey and a guaranteed seat on the next available flight or TGV INOUI train so that passengers can now check-in online before departure For those Air France customers travelling in the La Première or Business Class Cabin they can travel in the first class section on SNCF trains Air France and KLM offer a combined ticket service on routes departing from Brussels-Midi station (to Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol) and Antwerp-Central (to Amsterdam Schiphol only) Last week I covered the latest update from United Airlines, Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn which are increasing their Air-Rail coverage links and it is going to see Air France further increase its coverage with SNCF The sustainability agenda in France is more pressured with airlines made to drop some routes due to environmental concerns there is a push for multi-modal travel such as this to aid travellers from the airport to a train and onto their final destination Mixes like this allow for a passenger to get off an aircraft board a train and arrive in a city or town ready for the last-mile part of their travel I would love a lot more airlines to partner with train companies to offer these multi-modal travel options Welcome to Economy Class and Beyond. 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You can find us across most networks as @economybeyond on Twitter, Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads and Instagram Also, remember that we are part of the BoardingArea community bringing you the latest frequent flyer news from around the world Filed Under: Passenger Experience, Rail, Rail Travel 27/11/2023 at 10:10 am is it similar to LH’s rail and fly where you can just add a train ticket later for a fixed price or is it more like the train part is coded as a flight where you have to buy the train ticket at the time of ticket purchase 27/11/2023 at 11:17 am They are expanding this partnership because of the future of domestic flying restrictions in France Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us Travel news, reviews and intel for high-flyers Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The latest expansion of the French flag carrier's Train + Air service comes amid a government push for more rail travel in favor or domestic air travel Air France has expanded its ‘Train + Air’ service by adding eight more rail routes This service has been available to Air France passengers traveling in and out of Paris for over 30 years The addition enables travelers to purchase SNCF rail tickets to Paris airports from various locations throughout France under a single reservation along with their flight tickets The service can be used for both inbound and outbound flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) or Paris-Orly Airport (ORY) providing passengers with more options for seamless connections when traveling around France The eight additional routes announced last week take the total number of rail journeys served by the program to 41 The route between Aix-en-Provence and Paris-Orly adds to the already-included service between Aix-en-Provence and Paris Charles de Gaulle all services to Paris-Orly include a private taxi transfer between Massy TGV station and the airport This latest expansion takes the total number of domestic rail stations with eligible connections to Paris to 22: Air France’s Train + Air service offers seamless rail connections to over 20 destinations throughout France and several other benefits for passengers These include a guaranteed seat on the next available flight or train in case of a delay or missed connection and the ability to check in for the entire journey online at airfrance.com La Première and Business Class passengers will also travel in first class on their SNCF rail journeys The Train + Air service has recently added eight new routes This came when the country banned short-haul domestic flights between destinations that can be reached by rail in less than 2.5 hours The government made this controversial decision to accelerate France towards its net-zero ambitions and other European countries are considering similar moves and German rail operator Deutsche Bahn by purchasing rail connections from 25 different stations when flying to the U.S Website created by Ink Studio From the moment you arrive into the Loire Valley Lodges - a half-hour drive from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps train station - it’s clear that every element of the experience is designed to create the right conditions for mental rest trees are very much supporting characters throughout our stay at the experiential luxury property smiley staff wearing sage jumpers and dungarees and tied fabric bracelets round our wrists Staff can also tell you based on where your birthday falls in the Celtic tree calendar and whereabouts in the grounds you can find it (be it naturally occurring in the forest or as part of the walls of one of the buildings) you see how immersive rituals and storytelling are important to the overall experience of Loire Vally Lodges - small but attentive details that help shift your mindset from whatever you’ve left behind to focus on connecting with the here and now We were dropped off at our lodge with our luggage via golf buggy These paths lead you back to the main lodge where the reception There are no lamps along these paths in order to prevent light pollution so each lodge is equipped with a handheld torch for walking back at night adds to the experience of adapting your senses to the natural surrounds of the forest Each of the 18 lodges at Loire Valley Lodges is build on stilts, with stairs up to the front door – apart from one ground-level lodge suitable for guests with reduced mobility The excitement of staying up amongst the trees really hits you when you open the front door and turn into the bedroom to see the floor to ceiling window wall opposite the king-size bed There are switch-controlled electric blinds should you want to block out the morning light and narrow floor-to-ceiling windows that can be fully opened during hot weather Our lodge felt extremely private and secluded Being there and in the thick of the trees had a remarkably calming effect who had painted a New York scene directly onto the wall of the lodge above the bed Framed photos documenting this process was hanging in the lodge as well as coffee table books of his urban photography to browse through and in each lodge the artist’s personality comes through in these touches The overall décor of the lodges has the feel of a contemporary luxury cabin in the woods was a 25 sqm terrace partially covered terrace with a hot tub There’s also a pulley with rope - which is there to support one of our favourite details about our stay breakfast is delivered in a picnic basket to each lodge (upon check in and once your breakfast has arrived and attached to the pulley via a carabiner clip you tug the rope to make your breakfast reach you then enjoy it on the terrace of your lodge Fresh organic produce is served: locally caught sashimi salmon butter and tiny shots of mineral water - all of which made for a delicious spread each day a Bodum gooseneck kettle and supplies of ground coffee and various types of tea leaves (including fresh herbs) A karaffe with a charcoal stick can be used to purify the tap water from the bathroom (taking 1-3 hours) There’s an in-room wine-list for ordering a bottle to your lodge should the mood take you The lodge’s plush bathroom had a metro-tiled walk-in shower The organic Leif amenities smelt incredible - especially the Boronia hand wash (nutgrass a small amount of closet space and a luggage rack In keeping with the idea of switching off and focusing on connecting with nature there is no in-room wifi at Loire Valley Lodges (there is wifi at reception for when you need to check in with the rest of the world) there’s a walkie-talkie for calling reception but we did struggle to get ours working when we called to double check what time we’d booked for dinner There are EU and USB power ports by each side of the bed Another highlight for us was the mango wood speakers which you can dock your phone in to play music (rather than relying on power) which created a really lovely These speakers are on sale in the lodge’s on-site gift shop and we loved it so much we bought one to take home The central lodge at Loire Valley Lodges - housing the reception restaurants and bar - has terrace that runs the length of the building lavender spheres to the open air pool area Here a golden sculpture of butterflies perching on a skull glints in the sun with the backdrop of the forest towering behind it creating a dreamy view from the sun loungers Drinks from the bar can be served to sun bathers around the pool (which is heated to 27 degrees) and there are changing facilities with towels and blankets We enjoyed a special dinner at Ardent restaurant (which was extremely busy with locals on a summery Monday evening We sipped diablo cocktails on the terrace while we waited for our table (decked out with rattan furniture and tables) “Art is the highest form of hope” is grafted onto the hunters lodge walls alongside taxidermy stag head and exposed wooden beams Chef Thomas Besnault creates menus inspired by everything grown in the resort’s organic fruit and vegetable gardens and readily growing in the forest with the freshness of everything elevates every dish The presentation of each dish is meticulous capitalising on the unique beauty of the ingredients themselves (such as daintily sliced asparagus spears and carefully arranged flower petals) and it’s astonishing how powerful the authentic flavours of each ingredient can taste when cooked this way Diners can opt for set menus with four Moments include a monkfish topped with a butter and white garlic sauce and a celery soup seasoned with Douglas fir bitter well-rounded taste that nods to the forest and lingers in your mouth after each spoonful A highlight was the smoked rhubarb for dessert topped with a raspberry coulis The second restaurant at Loire Valley Lodges Asperatus is also housed in the main lodge we dine in the gravelled courtyard overlooking the aromatic garden The al fresco open kitchen creates Mediterranean grill dishes and we tuck into a super tender pork ribs dusted with freshly chopped herbs picked from the garden next to us - once again the focus is on bringing out the natural flavours with excellent wine recommendations from the extensive with plenty of options to try from the Loire Valley region we borrow mountain bikes and explore the trails using a map of the grounds we climb up rickety (but safe) watchtowers cycle through fields with waist-level reeds and pause to listen to the unique sound of frogs shrieking Throughout the grounds seating is informally scattered in scenic spots including in the middle of the beautiful on-site vegetable gardens with a comfy glass-walled viewing cabin next to it You can take a seat and use the binoculars provided to watch thriving bees at work We spend half a day cycling between the art sculptures dotted around the forest grounds stopping for photos and to take in the scenery before heading to the pool to lounge in the sun Loire Valley Lodges can recommend trails of various lengths for running and can arrange day trips to the nearby Tours (the temporary capital of France during World War II) or hot air balloon rides above the region’s chateaux The wellness offering at Loire Valley Lodges fully leans into the surrounding nature the choice of massages take place on the terrace of your lodge choreographed to revive your senses with the sounds Other tempting options on treatment menu are the three-hour forest bath experience - guided by the property’s founder Anna Frey - where you’re encouraged to breathe with the trees and open up your senses to the forest on another level and hour-long sound baths in property’s intriguing new wood and glass panelled The property creates the conditions that help you lean into being in the moment and the deep relaxation that comes from giving yourself permission to do nothing The resort’s near-spiritual approach to connecting guests with nature at every turn feels like something your body and mind is truly craving something you’d like to bottle up and keep if you could and are presented with our own sapling to take home - so we can take the forest with us - it feels like the final flourish to a perfectly written story Stays at Loire Valley Lodges start from €440 euros per night including breakfast SNCF and Air France have added 8 connections to their “Train + Air” routes to and from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly This service allows customers to combine train and air travel in the same reservation You have read all of your free premium articles for this month. Please become a subscriber to keep reading Log in Take advantage of our exclusive offer to get full access to all premium content Emma Dailey is an editor at RailTech.com and RailTech.be With just five days to go until RailTech’s Intelligent Rail Summit ‘24 in Tallinn a big cash injection into the Rail Baltica megaproject will add another twist to… The battle for budget rail in Spain continues French high-speed train operator Ouigo has launched an offer of 10,000 tickets at just one euro There’s a new UK Budget and there’s some big news for British rail Finance minister Rachel Reeves has said the southern leg of the HS2 railway line should… has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to “bring forward a steady… Receive the latest news from the railway sector directly into your mailbox Accueil > Group > Fnac Darty receives recognition for its investment in the circular economy both the Darty store in Chambray les Tours and the new Fnac Darty repair center in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps received a visit from special guest Christophe Béchu Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps site demonstrates the Group’s commitment to the circular economy through its activities dedicated to repair and second life With 120 employees working in the four dedicated on-site workshops Fnac Darty highlights its essential role in contributing to regional attractiveness job creation and the training of expert repair technicians Visiting the Darty store in Chambray les Tours was an opportunity to put in perspective all the products and services offered to the Group’s customers as well as to promote responsible consumption the “Sustainable Choice” selection and the growing second-life offer Ce site n\'est pas optimisé pour votre navigateur internetVous pouvez le mettre à jour ou utiliser un des navigateurs suivants : The largest fidget spinner is 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) in length and was achieved by Endel Engie (France) in Saint-Pierre-Des-Corps The record was attempted as part of a competition run by one of Endel Engie's customers The competition was to design the 'nicest' fidget spinner Instead of designing and building a pretty fidget spinner Endel Engie Engie decided to build the largest They used the biggest ball bearings manufactured at their plant The ball bearings are typically used in wind turbines but Endel Engie managed to find a fun alternative purpose Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online (You will need to register / login for access) Comments below may relate to previous holders of this record Pamplemousse have released a new video for their new single “Vicious Mind“, the second extract from their new album “Think Of It” which will be released on March 17th by A Tant Rêver du Roi (Vinyl The band will be on tour in France in March (see concert listings below) including a date at the Trabendo in Paris with Fuzz (Ty Segall – Sold Out) formed in 2017 and released their first self-titled album on the French label “A Tant Rêver du Roi” Their sound is a mix of Noise and Garage rock with a hint of Blues Their second album “High Strung” was also released on the same label and recorded on analog at Studio Black Box in Angers with Peter Deimel Both albums were critically acclaimed nationally and internationally with comparisons to 90s masters such as Shellac and Fugazi Vicious Mind by Pamplemousse Vicious Mind by Pamplemousse Pamplemousse’s music is best experienced live as their powerful sound breaks away from traditional genres like Noise The band debuted in mainland France by opening for Unsane in Paris after which they toured extensively throughout France sharing the stage with other underground acts like LANE Pamplemousse changed their line up and it was now as a duo that the band locked themselves away for a year to compose their third album “Think Of It“ The album was recorded in 2022 at the Black Box by Peter Deimel and mixed by them in their studio in Reunion Island the duo continues to craft their style: nervous savage with noisy punk gems like “Vicious Mind” or “Mexican Boy” but Pamplemousse also widens its spectrum and leans towards indie rock like on the heady “One Millions Doors” the tension is palpable and the eruption always close… For 25 years Air France and the SNCF have been offering their customers a service allowing them to combine train and air travel in a single booking Called “Train + Air” (formerly TGV Air) and used every year by more than 160,000 customers it currently links 14 stations to the Air France hubs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly (Angers Saint-Laud Train + Air will also be offered by Air France between Bordeaux Saint-Jean station and Paris-Orly airport with connections available to the entire international Air France network on departure from Paris-Orly airport particularly to the French overseas territories (Cayenne Fort-de-France and Saint-Denis de La Réunion) Customers will travel by train from Bordeaux to Massy TGV before transferring to Paris-Orly by a taxi service There will be 5 daily departures from Bordeaux Saint-Jean and 4 daily departures from Massy TGV with adapted schedules* for quick connections Customers travelling from Bordeaux will enjoy all the advantages of the Train + Air product: Reservations for this new route marketed by Air France are already available at airfrance.fr Air France and the SNCF are currently working on extending the Train + Air product to other routes and improving the customer experience throughout their trip VP Sustainability and New Mobilities said: “Intermodality is at the heart of Air France’s sustainable development roadmap and we are pleased to be working on its development alongside SNCF teams Air France is committed to halving its CO2 emissions on the domestic network by 2024 notably by suspending routes on departure from Orly for which a rail alternative is available in less than 2hr30 The deployment of the Train + Air service on the Paris-Bordeaux route will make it possible to meet this commitment while maintaining connections to France and the rest of the world.” said: “We are delighted to be strengthening our partnership with Air France which as of today will be offering the Train + Air service from Bordeaux to Paris To travel to a Paris airport and make a connection we are convinced that this combined offer is the most efficient and certainly the most virtuous from an environmental point of view We will continue to strive to make it even simpler and more attractive with Air France and the other airlines involved We are currently experiencing an unprecedented health and our shared responsibility is to come up with new compatible travel solutions.” Air France has been promoting and highlighting France throughout the world With an activity divided between passenger transport cargo transport and aeronautical maintenance Air France is a major air transport player A workforce of more than 45,000 staff are committed on a daily basis to offering each customer a unique travel experience KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Transavia make up the Air France-KLM Group The Group relies on its powerful hubs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol to offer a vast international network Its Flying Blue frequent flyer programme has over 17 million members Air France and KLM are members of the SkyTeam alliance which has a total of 19 member airlines Air France places the health and safety of its customers and staff at the heart of its concerns As part of its Air France Protect health and safety commitment the company has introduced the strictest health and hygiene measures to ensure a safe trip Air France has set itself ambitious sustainable development objectives and is working to reduce and offset its CO2 emissions the company is committed to reducing its CO2 emissions per passenger/km by 50% between now and 2030 through significant investment in new-generation aircraft recourse to innovative solutions to reduce its fuel consumption and progressive use of sustainable alternative fuels Voyages SNCF is the long-distance travel operator of SNCF Voyageurs It is the reference in terms of high-speed rail travel in France and Europe offer their customers the “Train + Air” product between 19 stations and the two Paris airports (Angers Saint-Laud Voyages SNCF carried more than 140 million passengers in Europe more than 2 billion customers have travelled by TGV This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page is practicing scales when his visitor arrives "Sorry there isn't much room in here," Jude says getting up from one piano before wending his way among countless others filling his living room part of a unique collection totalling around 150 Jude and his cat live among the pianos in a four-bedroom house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Saint Pierre des Corps a suburb of the central French city of Tours A wooden gate opens into a yard cluttered with pianos stored in crates and protected from the elements with blue tarpaulins These are overflow instruments that the 63-year-old music teacher cannot manage to squeeze inside or in the garage His passion for the stately instruments has driven Jude to rescue scores of them from oblivion sniffing out hidden treasures at charity shops and auctions "You're in a sort of orphanage here," Jude smiles "In the '70s and '80s it was fashionable to turn pianos into furniture Many of those that I bought for a pittance would no doubt have ended up as bars People often are unaware of the value of the pianos they give away or sell for a song Five of Jude's pianos have been recognised as national heritage: an upright Clementi from 1820 including the first grand built by the iconic French piano maker in 1820 a concert grand from 1843 and an 1825 square piano The oldest piece in the collection dates to 1782 built specially for that year's Universal Exhibition in Paris that Jude loaned to the capital's Grand Palais museum for a recent forum on French innovation "The press spoke of it in glowing terms (in 1855) It still has a very good sound," Jude remarks playing a few notes on the elegant instrument made of rosewood with bronze trim it was juxtaposed with Pleyel's latest model a futuristic creation with lid and legs made of carbon fibre -- underscoring the venerable company's evolution from its beginnings as piano maker to Frederic Chopin I grew up with the idea that obtaining such an instrument was taboo," he said His first piano lesson from an elderly teacher in 1968 blew the taboo to pieces Determined to equal her mastery of Mozart's "Turkish March" the aspiring musician saved up his own money to buy a piano -- unbeknownst to his parents "I was seriously chewed out when the delivery men arrived but that consuming passion has stuck with me to this day," he says willingly lending instruments to record companies or musicians who want to record pieces on period pianos Among his gems is a piano that once belonged to French president Sadi Carnot Another is a rosewood Pleyel upright that once belonged to the writer Honore de Balzac's sister Laure Surville Rare pieces like this could fetch small fortunes but while admitting to having received some tempting offers Jude confesses to more than a shade of separation anxiety "I'm not psychologically prepared to let go of my pianos," he says He does however dream of founding a museum to house his collection Passengers on Paris’ metro line E can immerse themselves in the arts and culture of five different continents thanks to an on-board exhibition displaying works of art paintings and historical objects from the capital’s Musée du quai Branly A recent collaboration between French rail operator SNCF and Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac saw train carriages on the city’s underground RER Line E fully decked out in colourful prints depicting over 400 works of art paintings and objects of the historical collections that can be found in the museum More than 600sq ft of vinyl film was used across the five carriages each depicting traditional and telling works of arts originating from North and South America the ‘Arts and Civilisations’ train took 700 hours of work to complete thanks to 14 specialists from Saint Pierre des Corps Technicentre the company responsible with the maintenance of the lines can carry up to 1,300 passengers and serves 22 stations from Haussmann-Saint-Lazare to Chelles-Gournay or Tournan ornaments and ceremonial or funerary objects help retrace the history of its first indigenous peoples until the birth of cultures African-American The South-American display explores the journey from pre-hispanic America to present day the peoples of the Amazonian forest and the costumes of the Bolivian Carnival Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis The African artwork celebrates both sub-Saharan and North African through a multitude of masks passengers can observe motifs and objects reminiscing of cultures from Turkey to Japan The project is not the first of its kind however similar initiatives have seen Line C trains decorated to resemble the interiors of Château de Versailles followed by a train dedicated to impressionist art from Musée d’Orsay on Line J the celebration of 120 years of cinema on Line D and the Nature and Patrimony train Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network 07/03/2022 by Kevincm which currently operates high-speed trains in France The Vitesse Classique (classic speed) operation will operate services on the “classic” train lines of SNCF The routes that the trains will operate will be on the classic lines between: The service will offer 2 daily round trips on the Paris-Nantes line and 1 daily round trip on the Paris-Lyon line initially This will scale up to a total of five round trips a day from June Ouigo Vitesse Classique will offer a single travel class in classic Corail trains refurbished and sporting Ouigo’s pink and blue livery with children under 12 paying a fixed fare of €5 Like the tickets for Ouigo high-speed service Vitesse Classique tickets are sold exclusively online SNCF Connect and other distribution channels you’ll get a reserved seat allowed to carry one piece of carry-on luggage There will be shared power outlets and a selection of snacks for purchase it is pretty obvious they want to sew up the competition quickly and cannibalise other entrants to the market – such as FlixTrain, Railcoop enter the market whilst not directly competing with Trenitalia France in this instance – thus keeping passengers on SNCF services Open access rail operations still appear to be a very limited thing in France with entrants trying to work out how this market will work SNCF’s Ouigo Vitesse Classique could make it that bit harder to get a foothold in as they now cover high speed regional and low-cost long-distance services Welcome to Economy Class and Beyond – Your no-nonsense guide to network news Follow me on Twitter at @EconomyBeyond for the latest updates! You can follow me on Instagram too Also remember that we are part of the BoardingArea community Filed Under: Rail, Rail Travel 07/03/2022 at 6:57 am the prices (flying is almost always cheaper) and their just not going to places I need to go to And I had to go look up why there’s a strange elephant-thing pictured for Nantes Privacy PolicyCopyright © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Economy Class & Beyond All Rights Reserved.Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited provided that full and clear credit is given to Economy Class & Beyond with appropriate and specific directions to the original content Accueil > Group > Fnac Darty opens its service and repair hub in France Fnac Darty opened its new service and repair hub in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps near Tours on November 7 it allows the Group to support its ambitions in terms of repair and sustainability Its four workshops specifically dedicated to repair work (covering personal computing small domestic appliances and urban mobility) mean that this hub demonstrates the Group’s commitment to continuing to play a leading role in repair in France tying in with its work to extend products’ life spans In response to French consumer trends toward more responsible consumption last-mile delivery and home call-out services are also housed at this site which has capacity to repair 220,000 devices per year and employ 120 people These experts currently repair 160,000 devices per year at two Group sites with a combined surface area of 3,700 m2 (now replaced by the Tours hub) This hub is also considered an embodiment of Fnac Darty’s proactive CSR policy It allows the company to significantly reduce its carbon balance sheet by better managing energy costs thanks to technological innovations process industrialization and the creation of a new high-quality working environment for employees which reiterates its work to promote the circular economy and the economic influence of the territories on future activity We wanted to create a new organizational norm with workspaces designed to make every job easier this new hub benefits from the latest innovations in technology and process industrialization it allows us to improve our energy footprint and carbon balance sheet The Frejus Railway will finally reopen at the end of March hopefully bringing some relief to much of the rail freight industry in France and Italy after one and a half year RailFreight.com had a chat with Alexandre Gallo head of DB Cargo France and president of industry association AFRA Log in Plans for a rail freight interchange at Hinckley in Leicestershire have been derailed In an unexpected decision by the transport secretary The word ‘terminal’ is one of the most popular words in the world of logistics there exists different types of terminals for different purposes.… The train that derailed and went up into flames in Czechia on 28 February was going twice the speed limit Russian Railways (RZD) has come out with its yearly report for 2024 Some of the company’s indicators have not shaped up great they tell me I mustn’t do anything to hurt Laurent they tell me he might have taken things too far but it can’t be easy for him they tell me it’s only normal for my son to push me away they tell me a mother can’t exist without her son The taxi came to pick me up in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps the driver dropped me off outside the house the nurse coming by to give him his Buprenorphine and whatever else he takes the little bottles of Label 5 he buries at the bottom of the bin before I get there Sometimes I love Montlouis because of how ugly it is the huge cupboard underneath the living room staircase with the wooden tennis rackets the Jules Verne books in the library upstairs the maid who came in to clean in the morning and serve meals for fifteen years he’s been living on his own in the house where the cook used to live Now he’s hooked up to an oxygen tank all the time I come to Montlouis to get away from everything we bump into each other in the kitchen when we make our sandwiches and instant noodles me putting a bit of ham inside a folded-up slice of white bread You have to get used to this peculiar language But I think this is the way everyone should love There are still a lot of Paul’s things here At first it felt like they belonged to a dead person I took out the big black leather satchel with my mom’s book of modeling shots inside I always used to think she looked too made up too sexual in photos from before she was my mother I flick through the pages of the books and her beauty smacks me across the face I guess it would have taken strength to be around her not everyone can say they had someone like that in their life He’s probably the only one who really understands my grief because we both have the same way of loving children there’s always a moment where he takes his head in his hands There’s always a moment where it’s Laurent he feels sorry for And suddenly my mind is flooded with all the images of my dad that I’d forgotten about because they’re so different from everything he is Sometimes I wonder whether my son will struggle to be a man as much as his father does drops off a tumbler with his evening medication and sleeping tablets inside I wonder whether I should talk to him or whether I should just carry on acting as if he were already dead The guy at the swimming pool didn’t believe me when I went to renew my three-month pass He thought my birth date was off by a decade Same thing happened the other day when I answered the Vieux Campeur satisfaction survey They ticked the 25-35 box without asking me I say this for the benefit of straight mothers everywhere You could say that at twenty I was actually forty I’m messing with the fast-forward and rewind buttons I’ve always thought adults were bad at acting like adults I’ve rediscovered the tomboy I was as a child That’s why it was strange going through all this with Paul by my side But because part of the new me is about revisiting my childhood establishing a connection to the me that existed before him It was like being ten or twelve years old and being his mother at the same time So maybe that’s why gay people never seem to age Excerpt reproduced with permission from the publishers Translation copyright © 2022 by Holly James Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving The World Federation of Trade Unions learns with pain the death of Raymonde Dien which occurred on the morning of August 19 1950 that the worker militant Raymonde Dien opposed a rail convoy of armored vehicles at the Saint-Pierre-Des-Corps station on its way to Indochina where the 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If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window) انطلاق المؤتمر الإقليمي الأول لتنفيذ أجندة المرأة والسلام والأمن في عمان طلبة المسار المهني والتقني من مدرسة الجيزة يزورون كلية عمون التطبيقية الزراعة النيابية تبحث تعزيز دور البحوث الزراعية بمواجهة تحديات القطاع ميدان جمال عبدالناصر (دوار الداخلية) Valéria s’est levée à 4h30. « Je ne voulais pas rater nos au revoir », sourit cette trentenaire californienne, au premier rang des milliers de fidèles qui sont venus tenter d’apercevoir le pape François une dernière fois trop peur de ne pas pouvoir apercevoir le Saint-Père Derrière une immense procession de prêtres romains de congrégations religieuses – dont les jésuites à laquelle appartenait François – puis d’une grosse centaine de cardinaux jusqu’aux dizaines de journalistes massés sur une terrasse surplombant la place Mort du pape François : aura-t-il changé l’Église Même les 140 statues plantées sur les colonnades du Bernin qui encerclent la basilique semblent se recueillir sous le soleil de plomb qui illumine la place aux trois quarts remplie le catafalque du Saint-Père traverse lentement la place à peine couverts par le tintement des cloches Une rangée de bonnes sœurs plongent la tête dans leurs mains comme pour ne pas voir de leurs yeux que le pape François est bel et bien là Au moment de rentrer dans la basilique pour une heure de cérémonie, avant qu’elle n’ouvre au public jusqu’à samedi la place Saint-Pierre tout entière dit au revoir à son souverain pontife de la manière qu’il aurait préféré : en applaudissant Hélas, la procession transportant le pape est passée « trop vite », regrette-t-elle. « À peine eu le temps de me rendre compte », souffle la jeune femme. 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Profitez des avantages de l’offre numérique culture and entertainment you need to know An OAP got the shock of her life when she woke up and found a car crashed through her living room wall A deafening noise jolted 70-year-old Claudine out of her sleep around 6 am She told local media: “I heard a huge bang READ MORE: Lucky mum wins £1million on lottery after using kids’ birthdays for numbers Claudine jumped out of bed and put on her glasses She was horrified when she saw that a car with several people inside had crashed through the bay window of her living room knowing that the gas meter had been torn off whom I saw coming back later with the police “Another young man and a young girl got out of the car It turned out the driver was under the influence of drugs and alcohol He’d been driving at reckless speed and had failed to brake at a stop sign on Sunday (10 Mar) The crash left Claudine’s cosy home in sleepy Saint-Pierre-des-Corps I’ll go see my doctor because I think I need something to calm me down a little.” the OAP admitted she feels lucky to be alive “Because I’d bought this sofa bed for my granddaughters but they don’t want to sleep upstairs anymore Claudine has since filed a complaint with the police She’s moved with her daughter in Saint-Avertin as her house gets fixed She said: “It could take between six and eight months It’s not the first time Claudine’s house has been hit in the 45 years she’s been living there it must have been knocked down at least eight times “We asked the local authorities to do something. 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