If you are a real chocoholic then head to Paris for theSalon du Chocolat 20-24 October 2011. We all know how much the French revere Chocolate and Pastries as evidenced…
The village of Arleux (59 Nord, Hauts de France) just south of Douai holds its annual Arleux Smoked Garlic Festival 6 -7 September 2025(Foire à l'Ail Fumé) Here the focus…
La Fête de la Gastronomie 23 September 2023 (Festival of Gastronomy) is a nation-wide event across France celebrating French cuisine, now recognised by UNESCO as a part of the" Intangible…
The village of Saint Clar (32 Gers, Occitanie) holds an annual Saint Clar Garlic Festival 4 August 2022. Estivail (Summer garlic festival) with traditional market, tasting, music, workshop, games, and…
St Jean-Pied-diu-Port (64 Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Nouvelle Aquitaine) is a major gateway to the Pyrenees and is the confluence of serveral pilgrim routes on the way to St Jacques de Compostela (Santiago…
The town of Carcassonne (11 Aude, Occitanie) holds its "Marché aux Gras" (literally "fat market) on 22 December 2024 in the Salle du Dome - as with other towns in the…
Corsica is rightly known as the Ile de Beauté (Isle of Beauty) and is worth a visit at any time of year for its stunning coastline, rugged interior or its…
Strasbourg (67 Bas-Rhin, Alsace) is a major European city – on France’s eastern border with Germany and the Rhine, home of the European Court of Human Rights and one of…
The town of Sault (94, Vaucluse, Provence PACA) holds an annual Lavender Festival in August and then on the second Sumday of October an Autumn Mushroom Festival (Fête du Champignon)…
Annual Festival of the Tomato at Chateau de Labourdaisiere near Montlouis-sur-Loire
Eastern Burgundy - the area to the east of the A6 autoroute inlcuding the Jura and Saone et Loire departements offers many diversions and many good reasons to break free from the headlong rush south to the Alps and Mediterranean!
Discover more about Provence's rich harvest of local fruit and vegetables at the new Epicuium museum
Two websites in particular help me to recpature that sense of being in France
Channel4 TV is running a series by chef Jamie Oliver called "Jamie Does....". On 12 May 2010 the episode is entitled "Jamie does the French Pyrenees" - a slight misnomer…
Arles has strong connections to Vincent Van Gogh who spent 15 months of his most productive period in the town; There is a new museum dedicated to Van Gogh opened…
Another supposedly British tradition has been hijacked by those Frenchmen! - This time it is the veritable Black Pudding, previously thought to be the highlight of Scottish and northern breakfasts…
At Bellegarde-en-Marche (23 Creuse(Nouvelle Aquitaine) the locals are so keen on goat that a Confrerie (or brotherhood) of Goat Meat Eaters (la confrérie des mangeurs de chèvres) has been established…
The Minervois region of the Languedoc holds a major wine festival in Bize-Minervois (11 Aude, Occitanie) in the Autumn Tastes en Minervois 1 - 2 September 2018 - see www.leminervois.com.…
With such easy access from the UK by road or Eurostar, Lille (59 Nord, Hauts de France) is a must to visit all year, and remains one of my favourite…
An interesting cheese seldom seen in the UK is the Fourme de Montbrison which comes from an area known as Le Forez (42 Loire, ARA) between St Etienne and Clermont…
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