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Here’s a list of the Websites we find ourselves recommending to people throughout the year;

For French weather forecasts we recommend Metcheck … here’s the French page. Incredibly accurate even 10 days or so before.

For route planning we recommend ViaMichelin Enter your start destination as the French ferry port you’re using & end destination as your venue, press calculate & you get a route – they’ll even tell you the toll charges & alternative routes to avoid them.  As a general rule we’d advise you to stick to the motorways etc… French B roads are a nightmare as they wind their way through umpteen country villages.  A great way to see France if you’re not in a hurry, but a nightmare if you want to get to your destination as quick as possible.  Well worth the tolls in our opinion.

For currency conversion we recommend XE continue reading…

There are a couple of sites on the internet that are really useful to help you do a bit of home work on your chosen venue before you arrive.

Google Earth:

This one probably doesn’t need any introduction, as it is run by one of the biggest in the web business. The maps are getting better too for France, in any case. By better I mean more detailed resolution and clearer. There is also whole host of other information to be had from this site, including route planning, local amenities etc.

I’d strongly recommend that anyone going to France checks out their chosen venue prior to going and gets its GPS position and those of the local supermarket and restaurants for example. continue reading…

Ok this is not an article on carp fishing per se, but more on the use of the fabulous tool that is ‘YouTube’ ,a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips of your carp fishing adventures, with your mates and indeed with the whole world. YouTube was created in February 2005 and by January 2008, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views, with around 100 millions videos watched every day. Youtube is now owned by Google.

In fact Youtube is really a great extension to the blog. As you can see by clicking on the ‘Videos’ section of this blog, there are quite a few of our own clips on line for your to watch. When you upload a clip to the site you get a piece of code on your page that allows you to very easily embed the clip into your own blog pages. continue reading…