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BritishTours.com Extends Their Private Tours Further into France via Eurostar.


New Destinations in France Reachable by Private Tours and High Speed Train

LONDON -- Following high demand for their personal London to Paris day tours by high-speed train, London-based specialist tour operator British Tours Ltd is now offering a greater range of private tours of Paris and France (http://www.britishtours.com/paris) via the high-speed Eurostar.

The custom tours include high speed train travel between London and Paris - just 2 hours 35 minutes each way - and private car or coach in France with qualified tour guides.

The new tours include Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles with its stunning gardens and hall of mirrors, the great impressionist painter Claude Monet's Home and Gardens at Giverny, the beautiful Renaissance Chateaux of the Loire Valley Noun 1. Loire Valley - the valley of the Loire River where many French wines originated
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
, and the World Heritage site of Mont St Michel with its magnificent 11th Century Benedictine Monastery A Benedictine monastery is a monastery that follows the Rule of St Benedict on monastic living, written by the founder of western monasticism Saint Benedict of Nursia/Italy (fl. 6th century). The Benedictine Order has been active since that time. .

The most recent addition is a Champagne Country tour featuring tours of fascinating underground galleries, Hautvillers where Dom Perignon Dom Perignon

renowned vintage French champagne. [Western Cult.: Misc.]

See : Luxury
 invented champagne, and Champagne tasting in a private room at Moet and Chandon.

The Normandy D-Day invasion beaches, which British Tours Ltd have covered for many years - previously by ferry from England, and more recently by private plane and high speed train from London - are also offered on a private tour from Paris which visits Arromanches, Longues, Ranville, Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach was the code name for one of the principal landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6 1944, during World War II.
 and the Pointe du Hoc Pointe du Hoc (IPA: [pwε̃t dy ɔk]) is a clifftop location on the coast of Normandy in northern France. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Omaha Beach, and stands on 100 ft (30 m) tall cliffs overlooking the sea.  cliffs.

The tours which are available with Eurostar journeys, or separately for clients already staying in Paris, are expected to receive significant interest from British Tours Ltd's clients. "We have found a significant uptake of the new tours from past clients who have toured with us in Britain; they know the standard British Tours Ltd sets and seem comfortable to tour with us in France too," says Nikki Emms, British Tours Ltd's General Manager.

British Tours Ltd has specialized in upmarket up·mar·ket  
adj.
Appealing to or designed for high-income consumers; upscale: "He turned up in well-cut clothes . . . and upmarket felt hats" New Yorker.
, private touring in England, Scotland and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff.  since 1958, and offer a number of special interest tours with expert tour guides.
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