The seaside town of Carantec (29 Finisterre, Brittany) is throwing an Oyster Festival to celebrate its most renowned shellfish in Spring 2025 . Offering oyster menus, tasting sessions, accompanying beer,…
La Rochelle Jazz Festival (Jazz entre les deux Tours) in October 9 - 13 October 2024 (translated as Jazz between the 2 Towers, the 2 towers being the 2 towers…
The coastal town of Cap d'Agde (34 Herault, Occitanie) holds an annual wine festival (Vinocap) 9 - 11 May 2024 With all the wines of the south to explore for…
A new and dramatic venture opened in Bordeaux (33 Gironde, Nouvelle Aquitaine) on 1 June 2016- la Cité des Civilisations du Vin. This will be a world wine centre, showcasing…
A Normandie Whelk Festival (Foire aux Bulots) takes place in the small coastal village of Pirou (50 Manche., Normandie) 27 - 28 April 2024 Over two days festivities will include…
Aix les Bains Aix-les-Bains (73 Savoie, ARA) hosts a summer Rock music festival Musilac 10 - 13 July 2024 on the lakeside esplanade - see www.musilac.com The town styles itself as…
Ouistreham beach Ouistreham (14 Calvados, Normandie) is known to many as the port of arrival/departure for Brittany Ferries cross-channel crossing from Portsmouth to Caen. Yet it is worth a visit,…
The Normandy port of Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (14 Calvados, Normandie) holds its Scallop Festival (Le Gout du Large) 9 - 10 November 2024. Held in the biggest Scallop port in Normandie -…
French TV Channel France 2 has published a list of the Top places to visit in France as voted by the French! (see map at bottom of page) Arras -…
The Normandy Tourist Board has published some stunning video of the magical Mont Saint Michel: an Island once more at the recent high tides: See more on Le Mont Saint-Michel…
Just south of la Rochelle the resort of Châtelaillon-Plage (17 Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle Aquitaine) on the Atlantic coast is an ideal location for a Kite and Wind Festival (Festival de cerf-volant…
Dunkerque is becoming a popular destination for cross-channel travellers with the regular ferry service from DFDS now offering 24 crossings a day. Although the crossing from Dover takes a little…
In the far west of Brittany the attractive port of Douarnenez (29 Finistere, Bretagne) hosts the Douarnenez Maritime Festival (Temps fête) 18 - 21 July 2024 This is a major…
Sea Festival at Capbreton in the Landes
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…
Grandcamp-Maisy Scallop Festival This small village of Grandcamp-Maisy (14 Calvados, Normandie) is transformed into a hub of scallop tastings, demonstrations, market stalls, and entertainment for the Scallop Festival 30 November…
Caen (14, Calvados, Normandy) is a major French port and a cross-channel ferry port - but, of course, the Ferry docks at Ouistreham which is on the coast, whilst the…
Those folks on the French Riveria really know how to make us northern Europeans envious of their benign climate - February witnesses a whole series of festivals (Menton Lemons, Nice…