Upon his inauguration in 1995, PortAventura has a loyal clientele keen thrills with its famous Dragon Khan, his fall of 45 meters and 8 loops to reverse.The silhouette of this roller coaster has long embodied the image of the park until What is implanted in 2012 in the same universe Asian (China), the terrible Shambalha a hypercoaster of € 25 million which sprays no less than three European records.
It is the highest attraction to be found on the mainland (76 meters, the equivalent of a 7-storey building), offers the most dramatic drop (78 meters) and the fastest speed with peaks to 134 km / h.Mind-blowing.And pleasant, once the apprehension of the past rise, the screaming descent pushed a pass to camelbacks (bumps) you can experience the effects of weightlessness: it literally lifts off the seat!
A park dedicated to Ferrari
On the eve of his 20th birthday, we will celebrate next year, the second destination "resort" in Europe, is the pole position and the 5 million visitors.In his cartoons, a project looks at the level of ambition.It was here, in Salou near Tarragona (marked Disney location for its European address before Marne-La-Vallée it is preferred site), which will be inaugurated in 2016, a park dedicated to the brand Ferrari The first on our continent and the second in the world after Abu Dhabi, launched in fall 2010 Failing to navigate the famous rollercoaster "Formula Rossa" of the fastest Emirates Park (the world: 240 km / h with acceleration from 0 to 150 km / h), visitors can enjoy new extreme edge of the vertical accelerator highest and fastest in Europe sensations and stay in the first hotel in the world dedicated to the Prancing Horse brand.
Meanwhile, the summer looks spectacular in the sunshine of the Costa Dorada with the arrival on site, on July 11, a prestigious guest: the famous Canadian troupe Cirque du Soleil!Until August 30, guests can discover Port Aventura Kooza, a remarkable production that pays tribute to the circus arts.Vibrant, crazy, dangerous and funny at times ... Just like Port Aventura.
PRACTICE
Port Aventura(0.825.05.00.05;).
Entrance: 45 € / adult and € 39 for 4/10 and over 60 years.Top tip: for € 25 extra, Max Express ticket gives you access once without queue, the main attractions (allow € 46 for a bracelet Express Gold Max with unlimited access).
Staying there: sample rate for 2 nights from July 4 to 6 in Gold River, the newest hotel in the resort: from 815 € (instead of € 1165) for 2 adults and 2 children under 12 in the Room standard, breakfast and entrance to the park.Note: the show of KoozaCirque du Soleil is offered for a fee (from 45 € / adult and 35 € / child).
A park dedicated to Ferrari
On the eve of his 20th birthday, we will celebrate next year, the second destination "resort" in Europe, is the pole position and the 5 million visitors.In his cartoons, a project looks at the level of ambition.It was here, in Salou near Tarragona (marked Disney location for its European address before Marne-La-Vallée it is preferred site), which will be inaugurated in 2016, a park dedicated to the brand Ferrari The first on our continent and the second in the world after Abu Dhabi, launched in fall 2010 Failing to navigate the famous rollercoaster "Formula Rossa" of the fastest Emirates Park (the world: 240 km / h with acceleration from 0 to 150 km / h), visitors can enjoy new extreme edge of the vertical accelerator highest and fastest in Europe sensations and stay in the first hotel in the world dedicated to the Prancing Horse brand.
Meanwhile, the summer looks spectacular in the sunshine of the Costa Dorada with the arrival on site, on July 11, a prestigious guest: the famous Canadian troupe Cirque du Soleil!Until August 30, guests can discover Port Aventura Kooza, a remarkable production that pays tribute to the circus arts.Vibrant, crazy, dangerous and funny at times ... Just like Port Aventura.
PRACTICE
Port Aventura(0.825.05.00.05;).
Entrance: 45 € / adult and € 39 for 4/10 and over 60 years.Top tip: for € 25 extra, Max Express ticket gives you access once without queue, the main attractions (allow € 46 for a bracelet Express Gold Max with unlimited access).
Staying there: sample rate for 2 nights from July 4 to 6 in Gold River, the newest hotel in the resort: from 815 € (instead of € 1165) for 2 adults and 2 children under 12 in the Room standard, breakfast and entrance to the park.Note: the show of KoozaCirque du Soleil is offered for a fee (from 45 € / adult and 35 € / child).
Successful for the Spanish TGV passage between Toulouse and Barcelona
3:05 p.m. Toulouse. Dated the Railway Station boarding docks narrow slice by its decay with our TGV SNCF signed Renfe-floured nose while a refreshing white ribboned elegant burgundy and gray border.
Aboard. This Spanish TGV is very different from the French model.In first class, the larger seats are leather, equipped with a single socket and plug headset with four channels of music (classical and three international and Spanish varieties).And, all five seats, flat screens are installed in the ceiling of the central span.Second class, the equipment is identical, except for seats, slightly less broad and dressed in beautiful colorful fabrics.
The welcome announcement. Safety conditions, hours, offers snack ... it is endless.Taught in French, Spanish and English, it will be renewed each station stop, namely Carcassonne, Perpignan, Girona and Figueres.Exhausting!
Staff. We essentially feminine edge, Spanish and youngish dressed as air hostesses a strict gray suit with a small scarf tied on the side.French language mastered with a slight accent, small music heard in the films of Almodovar!
Distractions.As a long-haul flight, a stewardess distributes the atria in a small plastic bag.We are all excited about the film now ... until we discover that it is Heartbreakerwith Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis , released in 2010 ... In addition, the screen is a bit far from our head and if we understand well, it is hard.
A drinks trolley (pay) but nothing happens after snack.For that, you have to go to the bar!In the club car, so a Spanish host a sexy anything proposes the card, the same as our French TGV, lying some Iberian specialties such as high calorie donut glazed with sugar "Donuts" so popular in the kingdom .
Landscapes. Between Perpignan and Carcassonne, the path runs along the sea, while in the distance appear the peaks of the Pyrenees.What a postcard!This is the real movie of the trip in technicolor.A small masterpiece.Pyrenees are crossed by a long tunnel.Here we are in Spain, where the new high speed line makes its way into large tracts of Mediterranean vegetation: the Costa Brava campaign side.
Crossing the city is under ground.We are spared the blow what might offend our aesthetic sensibility.The no man's lands drafts disappear from the landscape.In Figueres and Girona station station access from the north (Cadaques, Roses, Estartit, L'Escala ...) and southern (Bagur beaches Pafrugell, Palamos, Platja d'Aro, Sant Feliu de Guixols ...), the Most shorts down, emptying the train a third of its passengers.It smells like the beach!It remains to our board, in first class, a few suits and ties and Barcelona's proud prim.
18.45. Our TGV fact, to the minute, its entry into Estacio Sants station in Barcelona.Two escalators here we are immersed in a new building near the city center and airport-like, with shops, security gates and lounges where passengers boarding the return journey waiting patiently.
What do we think? Successful for Trans-train with a respected 3:40 between Toulouse and the Catalan capital schedule Passage.One small regret the absence of newspapers and a restaurant instead, more substantial, like Thalys and Eurostar.
At what price? It is announced from € 39 each way ...
Open track. Services to Figueras, Girona and Barcelona are also from Paris (6:25), Lyon (4:53) and Marseille (4:17), operated jointly by the SNCF and Renfe.A total of five trains from thirteen major French cities with Spanish Catalonia.More than one million passengers are expected this year.
New for Summer. From Paris, we can now take the TGV at 16h07 to arrive at 22:48 in Barcelona.The new schedule connects the Catalan capital live from Sète and Agde.It also offers from Beziers in the afternoon, in addition to the morning on the TGV from Marseille.
In line Barcelona-Paris, a third daily service was also set up, with a departure at 13:20 for arrival Gare de Lyon at 19h53.
As the summer season comes to an end in a few weeks, there is still time to meet the gaze ofLeonardo DiCaprio in Saint-Tropez.Like every year, this city attracts many people such as this vintage 2014, singer Gwen Stefani, model Cara Delevingne and Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith recently separated from.Less than 100 miles away, in Cannes, it's Madonna , accompanied by her offspring: Lourdes, Rocco, Mercy James and David Banda who ed the French sun and also spent an evening with U2 frontman Bono .
As for Jamel Debbouze and Melissa Theuriau, they put their suitcases on the Island of Beauty, as Alizee and her companion dancer Gregory Lyonnet and Baptiste Giabiconi, while Shy'm decided to rest. .. in Paris.
Spain, Ibiza, more specifically, the second summer spot coveted by celebrities, tourists can have the chance to meet - when they are not on yachts or in the VIP square bars and fast food restaurants DJDavid Guetta and Will Smith and Calvin Harris or actors Justin Bieber .Brazilian footballer Neymaralso raised along with the jet-setter Paris Hilton .The latter then moved to Pampelonne to play DJ, then to St. Tropez.
On another Iberian island, supermodel Kate Moss has tanned on the fine sand of Formentera with her husband Jamie Hince and daughter Lila Grace.Former Miss France 2010 Malika Ménard, she opted for Barcelona, while its sister Flora Coquerel, Miss France 2014, flew to New Caledonia.
Meanwhile, supermodel Gisele Bündchen meditates in Costa Rica for Eva Herzigova and her husband play on a beach in Sardinia.
As the presenter Nikos Aliagas and his two colleagues Thomas Sotto and Stephane Bern, they all three opted for Greece, as Lindsay Lohan, seen in Mykonos.
On the other side of the planet, Johnny Hallyday and his wife Laeticia partied in St. Barts at a party Tahiti with Marc Lavoine
To find the heat of summer, you have to run in the South.Here are five destinations outside the borders of France that will extend the leave and will start the fall off right.
SPAIN - Past the months of July and August, the beaches of the Iberian coast are less invaded the beginning of September (with the exception of local regulars and eternal).In Malaga (Andalusia), with temperatures expected to range between 20 degrees in the morning and 34 in the afternoon, after a swim in the river Guadalhorce, visit the Picasso museum is required, a painter, is omnipresent.Then a walk through the old town to admire the architecture and the cathedral before sitting at a café terraces in the sun or under an umbrella.The evening festivities are numerous, especially between spaces Constitucion, San Ignacio and Merced.
ITALY - In Rome, in line to visit the Colosseum or the crowd to admire the Trevi Fountain will be less dense.Nothing like also to stroll around the Spanish Steps, in the historic heart and lined with buildings in warm colors and especially contemplate the prospect of the church of Trinita dei Monti in Barcaccia fountain, connected by a large staircase built in the eighteenth century.Off the beaten path and discover beautiful works trails, just enter in the many churches in the Eternal City.
CROATIA - Dubrovnik, which is the subject of a major restoration program coordinated by UNESCO is a city whose reputation is growing every year.Pile Gate, main enteée and mostly starting point for visiting the "pearl of the Adriatic", offers an array uncommon among cobbled streets and houses in pink tiles offered by the city of Toulouse after the war.And to finish off the day, we must move near the walls to enjoy the beauty of the sunset.
GREECE - After more than three hours of flight, Athens welcomes visitors to discover the Acropolis by browsing through a wooded path (early morning or late afternoon) to admire the Parthenon and the view over the whole the city.Then, towards Plaka, below, with its cobbled streets and many shops including Adrianou street and the lively Syntagma before taking a drink on one of the roof tops or get a painting in a cinema outdoors.
TUNISIA - IF you need an atmosphere with a very high temperature for the season, Djerba seems to be the ideal place.Its twenty kilometers of sandy beaches will be spoiled for choice to ask towel and umbrella.Or to go for a walk along the fishing ports, unless the athletes do prefer jet skiing, quad biking ... the camel.A 4x4 excursion in the desert is also a must to admire the dunes and swim in an oasis, before placing an atypical evening atour a campfire sipping a mint tea and sleeping in a Berber tent.
