Every summer the town and Cathedral of Chartres is illuminated in a spectacular nightly free light show - and at the end of the season there is an extra special Festival of Lights.
Celebrate Burgundy in Saint Aubin
Muscadet celebrates its own New Year with a wine festival
Festival of American Film in France! C'est Hollywood sur mer??
Nimes is the southernmost wine region of the Cotes du Rhone
Sedan (08 Ardennes. Grand Est) is a name that haunts the French with memories of the battles of the Great War and the Napoleonic Wars in Eastern France. Sedan has…
Pont Chaban Delmas A new bridge opened in 2013 in Bordeaux (33 Gironde, Nouvelle Aquitaine) - The Pont Chaban Delmas is a lifting bridge - i.e. the central section lifts…
Leonardo da Vinci spent the last years of his life at the Chateau du Clos Lucé near Amboise (37 Indre-et-Loire,Centre) in the Touraine, Loire Valley. Invited by King Francis I…
Combining wine and jazz in the attractive old town of St Emilion (33 Gironde, Nouvelle Aquitaine) sounds superb, when the St Emilion Jazz Festival hits town 28 - 30 June…
Many celebrations take place across France on Bastille Day (14 July ). but one of the most spectacular must be the firework display over the magical, medieval city of Carcassonne…
Jazz in Corsica
Bayonne in the Basque country celebrates its famous air-cured ham
Dunkerque (62 Pas de Calais, Hauts de France) manages to brighten up the miserable northern French winter with its annual Carnival on numerous dates between 1 January - 22 March…
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…
Although Dunkerque (59 Nord, Hauts de France) is not the most attractive of Channel ports, the DFDS ferry from Dover to Dunkerque has meant that many travellers now by-pass Calais…
The small south-west appellation of Madiran (64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle Aquitaine) is home to the Tannat grape, producing rich, sometimes tannic red wines. This is a rural area - no large…
Paris has such a rich diversity of hotel and other accommodation from budget to luxury - so the choice can be daunting.There are also many more "self-catering" and apartment hotels…
Paris has a mystique and splendour that no other European city, perhaps no city in the world, can equal. It is home to the Louvre, the Notre Dame cathedral, the…
Situated just an hour south of the Channel port of Calais , St Valery-sur-Somme (80 Somme, Hauts de France) offers not only a first or last stopover to/from more distant…
Venetian Weekend at Chateau de Cheverny 28 - 29 September 2024 Chateau de Cheverny Venetian Weekend ...be transported into the magical world of the Venice Carnival without leaving France! The…