Category: Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes

Cheese, glorious cheese… is revered all over France and none more so than the well-known Reblochon cheese. Hailing from the Haute Savoie, the local Savoyards ...

Eugenie Brazièr – star of her time: When you think of Michelin star chefs, a few names probably come to mind but how many of you ...

Outside the Boulangerie du Palais on the corner of rue St-Jean and the rue du Palais de Justice a queue is forming, an alien concept ...

Lyon in southern France is famous for its fabulous gastronomy, its architecture and winding little streets, it’s old town and its new look. There’s so ...

Recently, I found myself in the welcome shade of a traboule (those ancient covered passageways for which Lyon is famed), on the steep banks of ...

Only Lyon When you visit Lyon you have certain expectations. Medieval architecture, the famous traboules (the covered alleyways which lead from narrow street to narrow ...

As he has done every Saturday morning for two decades, Marcel parks his battered white van on Avenue Edouard Millaud, main thoroughfare of the rural ...

  Founded by the Romans in the first century BC, and having borne witness to two millennia of history, urbanization, and culture, Lyon was classified ...

Pots of Angels and Cathedrals: A letter from the king of France, Charles V11 dated Paris, 14 July, 1492, recognizes the presence of potters at the ...