Top 10 places to rest for your Christmas holidays

For a break with the stress of work, buckle up your suitcases and escape under other skies a few days is a solution! Whether you're in love, with your family, in the mountains or at sea, in France or across borders, whatever your budget, you will find the ideal place to rest and recharge your batteries.

The Alsace. Bader on the Christmas markets of the picturesque villages superbly illuminated, a glass of hot wine in hand is a real pleasure. You will have plenty of opportunities to relax by discovering a welcoming region.

The markets attract you, go to Vienna. The smell of the biscuits and the animations of the illuminated Austrian capital will bring Christmas together with snow and traditions.

Skiing or snowshoeing, fir trees, mountain air will also delight you with the daily routine. A raclette, an evening games in front of a fireplace to warm you up, enjoy only the moment!

Feeling cheerful, it is in Arles that we must go. The annual festival "Funny Christmas" offers live shows and streets in an artistic atmosphere full of surprises.

Pass the Arctic Circle to the north of Finland. The village of Rovaniemi with its thousand lights welcomes you for the most beautiful gifts to offer your children: meet Santa Claus in person!

Brittany can fill your desire for walks by the sea and markets. That of Lamballe, in the alleys of the Haras and its stables is magnificent.

London, with its Christmas market in Hide Park and its Winter Wonderland park offers you a Christmas worthy of a fairy tale.

To escape the cold and the grisaille, the stunning landscapes of the Canaries will seduce you for a Christmas in the sun.

The sun will be in Punta Cana. Farniente on the beach in the shade of the coconut trees, rest assured!

A cruise in the Mediterranean may prove opportune to do nothing but stroll during the stopover and let yourself be carried by the waves.