The otherwise rather dour northern french city of Arras (62 Pas-de-Calais, Nord- Pas-de-Calais) opens a new Aquatic Centre called ACQUARENA The rather modern and flowing lines of this complex of…
The Free Aux Heures d'Été (Summer Hours) Nantes Festival takes place in Nantes (44 Loire Atlantique. Pays de la Loire) 9 July - 9 August 2024 . This free festival…
Lille (59 Nord, Hauts-de-France) has joined ranks of inland French towns and cities which create a summer beach in town. Often by riversides or in parks, with imported sand, deckchairs…
a wine fair on the Moselle in France!
Ship festival on the Med
Chinon in the Loire Valley celebrates its wine festival in April
visit the world's largest wine competition in Macon, Burgundy
yes - a soup festival!
A favourite Provence destination
Provencal food and wine festival
Spring music festival in Bourges
Think ahead to warm (or even hot) Spring days in Provence - add the magnificent Pope's Palace (Palais de Papes) and Roses in Avignon a stunning exhibition of roses -…
celebrations in Orleans to celebrate the Maid of Orleans, national heroine and saint, born 600 years ago
An irrestible introduction to the wine, cheese, food and countryside of Jura
Celebrate St Valentine in Roquemaure(30 Gard, languedoc-Roussillon) at the Festo de Poutoun (Occitan for The Kissing Festival)11-12 February 2012.
The town of Limoux (11 Aude, Occitanie) south of Carcassonne and in the foothills of the Pyrenees, brightens up the winter months with its Carnaval which it claims as one…
A very gallic combination of herbs - the city of Tours ( 37 Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val-de-Loire) sets aside a day to celebrate with a Foire à l'ail et au basilic (Tours…
Apart from producing excellent wines, Chablis (89 Yonne, BFC) being the most northerly of the Burgundy Wine areas, it is also a pleasant small town with a weekly street market…
The Christmas Market Marché Artisanal de Noël in Bergerac (24, Dordogne, Nouvelle Aquitaine) runs daily 8 - 24 December 2018 As the name implies this is a market which is…
Besides being known for Limoges Porcelain, Limoges (87 Haut Vienne, Nouvelle Aquitaine) holds the Limoges Jazz Festival (les Eclats d'Email) 16 - 26 November 2023. - see www.eclatsdemail.com - an…