The Golden Globe Race starts on Sep 4, 2022 from Les Sables d’Olonne on France’s Atlantic coast. It’s a remarkable race, recalling the Golden Age of solo racin...
Josephine Baker’s Château des Milandes is a wonderful mix. It’s a traditional grand château but it’s a château devoted to its most intriguing and unusual owner...
The Most Beautiful Villages of France is one of the most attractive organisations that the French are so good at creating and enjoying. Les Plus Beaux Villages...
Every year the French public gets the chance to vote for their favourite village. The Village préféré des Français is the brainchild of TV presenter Stéph...
Favourite Monuments of France might seem like yet another list but this one is a list with a difference. They are voted for by the French themselves, a nation ...
Why the need for a guide to Le Mans? Surely it's all about the famous annual 24-hour race in June when petrol heads pack the city, and its equally famous car m...
For many people Le Mans is all about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the race and the museum. It's a heady mix that rises to fever pitch every June when the annual 24...
Forget the famous Le Mans 24-hour annual car race. Le Mans is above all a medieval Plantagenet City with one of the most extensive preserved old quarters in Fr...
The first great French beam has been cut from an ancient oak for the new roof at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The devastating fire in April 2019 brought the ...
Most people know the Loire Valley but what about a tour of the Loir (without an ‘e’) valley. The Loir river meanders along, north of, and almost parallel to it...
