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…

Deauville Music Festival, (14 Calvados, Normandie) runs 12 - 26 April 2025 also known as the Festival of Easter (Festival de Pâcques) is a feast of classical music with nine…

Having previously been restricted to professionals and expensive wine tour operators, the famous Chateau d'Yquem is to open to the public from March to September. A visit to 400-year-old Château…

Neufchatel-en-Bray cheese - The Neufchatel-en-Bray (76 Seine-Maritime, Normandie) holds an annual Cheese Festival (Fete du Fromage) in the Autumn: 13 September 2025   Neufchatel Cheese Neufchatel cheese is made from…

There is an annual watercress festival (Fete du Cresson) at Veules Les Roses (76 Seine-Maritime, Normandie) a picturesque seaside resort between Dieppe and Fécamp 20 April 2025 Here you will…

The French, being very French, hold an annual day to celebrate their cuisine world-wide 16 April 2020 For the fifth year the Goût de France/Good France Festival celebrates France's prized…

Aix les Bains Aix-les-Bains (73 Savoie, ARA) hosts a summer Rock music festival  Musilac 9 - 12 July 2025 on the lakeside esplanade - see www.musilac.com The town styles itself as…

Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris has announced that the Avenue des Champs-Élysées will be closed to cars on one Sunday each month from April 2016 to open the whole…

The extraordinary professional cycle race the Tour de France and its accompanying circus and roadshow hit the roads of France in July 29 June -  21 July 2024 Exceptionally, because…

The stylish Musée Jacquemart-André hosted an exhibition of paintings painted in Normandy in 2016 and always has a special exhibition featuring an individual or group of artists. Although privately owned…

Many of the most iconic sites and streets of Paris are occupied by the runners in the Paris Marathon 13 April 2025 The start of the Paris Marathon takes place…

Opening in June 2016, the New Bordeaux Wine Centre (la Cité du Vin à Bordeaux) is now taking shape in the northern suburbs of the city of Bordeaux. (33 Gironde,…

The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) is to stage a retrospective exhibition of the art of Modigliani 27 February - 6 June 2016. In the…

The price of Diesel in France is now below €1.00 per litre, and even though the exchange rate for the £sterling has dropped slightly against the €uro, the equivalent price…

From 1 January 2016 the map of France is re-drawn! Something of a revolution will hit France on 1 January 2016 - streamlining of the French Regions: France has always…

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 -…

Calvados apples A Normandy Cider Festival (journee de l'abre et du cidre, literally Day of the Tree and Cider) takes place at the Ecomusée in Saint Cyr-la-Rosiere (61 Orne, Normandie)…