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...
Guide to Calais? A great city? Yes, I love the place and it's had a hard time in the past persuading people to stay rather than leave the ferry port and get o...
The magnificent, rambling 1,500-room Château of Fontainebleau lies at the very heart of French history.
Like many grand buildings, Fontainebleau began as a ...
A Lace and Fashion Museum in Calais? Well, yes…all that and more is on display here at the Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode (International Cent...
