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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 …
Lyon France, intoxicating and a split personality
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 …
South of France by Train, a Cultural Journey
Fancy some French culture this summer? Take the train… Is it just me who still gets genuinely excited by the prospect of a European train …
Markets in France | Lyon
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 …
Brilliant Summer Holidays in the French Alps
The Alps – they’re not just for winter, they make for the most amazing summer playground too! A holiday in the French Alps in summer …