Christmas Market, Place du Capitoul, Toulouse As part of the city's End of Year celebrations, Toulouse (31 Haut-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees) holds its 9th Christmas Market (Marché de Noel) from 28 November…
It began in 1972 when a journalist challenged Fleet Street to "Bring Back the Beaujolais" to London copying the similar "race" to get the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau wine…
Now here's an opportunity to spend several months in one of the most beautiful and unspoilt parts of France next summer - near Entraygues-sur-Truyère (12 Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees) in the upper…
Photo by ANTONI SHKRABA on Pexels.com The village of Mouriès in Provence (13 Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence PACA), southeast of Avignon celebrates its local green table olives with a Green Olive Festival…
The sparkling wine appellation of Clairette de Die holds its Festival de la Clairette de Die (Clairette de Die Festival) on 10 May 2024 in Aurel (26 Drome, ARA), a veritable…
I tend to think of Garlic as a rather inert product when its on the supermarket shelf, with its clean hard bulbs. But of course, it is a vegetable from…
Apparently there is a type of pain d'epices (spice cake, rather like gingerbread) made with honey which is designed to go with Foie Gras (Goose Liver)! So I learn from…
I am a great fan of the Lot département (46 Midi-Pyrenees), initially from wine-hunting around the town of Cahors, and more recently further upstream on the Rivers Lot and Célé,…