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Lyon Gastronomic Capital of France
Lyon is generally acknowledged by the French to be the gastronomic capital of France; there are more restaurants per head in this city than any …
Football Fans Guide to Marseille France
Glitzy, glamourous, slightly gritty, ever so cool and incredibly hot! Marseille is in the south of France, lapped by the Mediterranean Sea, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, …
Guide to Saint-Etienne France
Essential Guide to Saint-Etienne France: Saint-Etienne is in the eastern central France in an area known as the Massif Central in the region of Rhone-Alpes. It …
Festival of Lights Lyon cancelled 2015
Update: Gérard Collomb, the Mayor of Lyon, has announced that, given the recent tragic events, the Fête des Lumières will not be able to take place …
Celebrating Reblochon Cheese with a Festival
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 …
Mères Lyonnaises |Lyon’s Famous Women Chefs
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 …
Vieux Lyon, Old Lyon Town, France
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 …
How to Spend Three Days in Lyon, France
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 …
Musée des Confluences Lyon, France
The Musée des Confluences, a magnificent new museum both architecturally and in its content, which sets off to explain, well, the history of everything…or so …
Lyon Silk weavers and traboules
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 …