The best new French holiday ideas

Great news for surf-lovers: easyJet (www.easyjet.com) is starting a new route from Bristol to Biarritz, providing a useful link between the Atlantic beaches of North Devon and Cornwall and the crashing waves of the Basque coastline. There will be four flights a week, starting in April. Stay at the renovated Sofitel Thalassa Miramar, which draws on Biarritz’s spa heritage to offer a mind-boggling programme of thalassotherapy treatments and therapies to soothe your wave-bashed limbs. Doubles from about £120 a night, room-only,