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TRAVEL UPDATE(Sunday Mercury Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)BUY Paris travel cards and museum passes before you arrive in the French capital through a new website www.allofrance.co.uk. The Paris Visite Travel Card gives you unlimited travel on the metro, buses and overground RER trains from pounds 6 for one day, pounds 10 for two, or pounds 13 for three days. A one-day museum pass costs pounds 10. JOIN in the St Patrick's Day revelry in Cork City when you take over a restored stone farmhouse starting March 16 or 17. Renting the six-bedroom house at Ahakistsa, about an hour outside the city, costs pounds 67pp for three nights during the festival through Elegant Ireland, 00 353 1 475 1632 or go to www.elegant.ie OR celebrate St Paddy's day closer to home at Pontin's Wall Park centre in Devon (0870 604 5606 or www.pontins.com) where the Queen Vic pub will be transformed into Brennan's Bar. Irish bands The Fureys and Spinach For Norman will top the bill at this weekend which costs from pounds 29.75pp when four share between March 17-19. A GAMES barn with table tennis, darts and an indoor trampoline comes with the house - but you might have to go for a drive to see the ponies - when you take over the Granary on Exmoor this half-term. The property was built in the 18th Century and sleeps eight. A week's rental from February 10 costs pounds 455 total. Book through Helpful Holidays, 01647 434063 or visit www.helpfulholidays.com ONE kid stays free during Disney's Kids Carnival that kicks off this weekend in the Paris park. The Mardi Gras-style festival runs until March 12. The deal takes the cost of a family of four sharing a room at the Hotel Santa Fe for three nights down to pounds 262 with park passes for four days but excluding Eurostar tickets. Details: 08705 030303 or www.disneylandparis.com FREE walking maps are downloadable from budget car hire site www.carrentals.co.uk/roadsense The maps cover 56 walks across Britain. |