The town of Mourjou (15 Cantal, ARA) hosts an annual Chestnut Festival Foire de la Châtaigne et du Châtaignier 19 -20 October 2024 The Festival includes a large market selling…
Every year, Digne les Bains (04 Alpes de Haute-Provence. PACA) holds its Provence Lavender Festival 4 * 8 August 2023. Lavender is the symbol of the region, and the highlight…
A Basque Soup Festival Championnat international de garbure or La Garburade is held in Oloron Sainte Marie(64 Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Nouvelle Aquitaine) 7 September 2024 Basque Soup Festival Known as Garbure this…
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,…
In the village of Is-sur-Tille (21 Côte d'Or, BFC) there is an annual Burgundy Truffle Festival Fête de la truffe et des Papilles (tastebuds) held on 14 October 2023 This…
A quiet medieval village in Burgundy!
Head to Dunkerque for their wine, beer and food festival weekend
Love that French Chicken!
Celebrating the magnificent onion
Fishy Festival in Brittany in April
All things goose in Sarlat
Truffle market in central France....
There is an annual cider festival at Le Sap (61 Orne, Normandie), not far from Vimoutiers and Camembert country! 12 - 13 November 2022 - Fête du Cidre à l’ancienne,…
Beaujeu celebrates the release of Beaujolais Nouveau
A southern Cotes du Rhone wine market
now that sounds fun - a wine market in Burgundy!
A favourite Provence destination
Down in Southwest France they celebrate the luscious cherry, which ripens towards the end of May to early June, a sure sign of summer! The town of Céret (66 Pyrenees-Orientales,…
Boulogne-sur-mer (62 Pas de Calais, Hauts de France) may no longer have a cross-channel ferry service, and as a consequence fells more "french" and less frenetic and transitory than its…
The chickens of Bourg-en-Bresse (01 Ain, ARA) are famous across France for the delicacy of their flavour and command a premium from chefs and good cooks. In December the region…