The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the world’s great art works, never failing to impress however many times you see it. Almost 1,000 years old, it's an astonishing ...
The Calais Dragon (Le Dragon de Calais) is the latest star in France. So if you haven’t met him yet, what's he all about?
The Calais Dragon lives on the be...
The Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse by guest writer Mary Johns.
The Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse has over the centuries been a place which took both the body and...
On Sunday November 8th, 2020 at 13.02, 33 boats set off from Les Sables d’Olonne on the French Atlantic coast in the Vendée department. They’re taking part in ...
The Vendée is glorious. The air from the Atlantic sweeps in along a coastal landscape where long sandy beaches are backed by sand dunes. Estuaries provide sanc...
The Armistice Museum and Memorial is surprisingly little known to the general public - even in France. It's an important site: it was here that the armistice t...
In a forest in northern Burgundy, you’ll come across a unique project – the building of the medieval castle of Guédelon. This is not a restoration projec...
The revamped Battle of Agincourt Museum (officially the 1415 Azincourt Center) aims to tell the true story of the great 15th-century battle and it does a great...
By Fiona Quinn, guest writer
Isère's parks and mountains are the envy of France. In the south east of the country, this spectacular Alpine area is a summer...
Isère by guest writer Fiona Quinn
How much do you know about Isère? I would guess it’s less than Provence or the Dordogne. But it’s an impressive part of th...
