Category: Guest Blogs

No matter what mode of travel you prefer, you can’t help but notice the impressive sight as Béziers towers above the landscape from a great ...

If you’ve walked around any of France’s cosmopolitan cities in recent years, you’re sure to have come across some stunning murals. Painted onto the side ...

On June 6th, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history changed the course of World War II. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings saw more ...

If you are driving through France and need a place to stretch your legs, use the facilities, and maybe get something to eat or gas ...

It was raining as we landed in Nice, France. We’d flown in from Minneapolis, USA—twenty-two hours of travel. Our daughters, aged three and five, were ...

Gordes is a soul touchpoint says author Elizabeth Birkelund… I wonder if Louis XI knew what he had gained in 1486 when Provence, a semi-independent ...

Urban environments might seem like a challenge for wannabe birders, and you may wonder whether there’s anything worth seeing, past a few pigeons in Paris ...

Long term American expat in France and host of French Country Adventures, Sue Aran shares her thoughts on the reality of life in France. It’s ...

Toulon is a port city on the Mediterranean coast, and capital of the Var department, southern France. Toulon is home to the French navy, and ...

Since Roman times the area known as the Beauce Plain, a flat, fertile, treeless expanse of open country southwest of Paris served as the granary ...