Category: Guest Blogs

Julia Wingfield finds France may not be 100% perfect for wheelchair users, but its friendly folk make up for it … I wasn’t always a ...

Business seems to be booming for the abbeys and monasteries in France. Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crisis don’t appear to have slowed ...

One of the best vegetarian meals I have ever had was on a mini-break in France, my native country. It was in Carteret, a small ...

“Imagination is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine” – ...

The French artist, Eugène Carrière, was a remarkable painter who worked almost exclusively in a colour palette of browns and deep yellows, using quick, semi-dry ...

Whether you simply pass the imposing, turned inside out, building or are viewing it from one of Paris’ look out points like the iconic Eiffel ...

The French masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa is an emotionally wrenching painting that depicts a notorious real-life human tragedy: the appalling suffering of people ...

The Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is located some fifty miles southwest of Paris on a small hill overlooking the city of Chartres. The Cathedral and ...

The French female artist Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré captured the working lives of everyday women in the countryside of north-western France. One of her finest ...

The world’s most comprehensive and coherent collection of astonishing Art Nouveau artefacts can be found not in Paris, but in one house in the French ...