Where to Stay and Eat on the Northern Coast of France
The region’s best restaurants and hotels, including some you won’t find in the brochures
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HOTEL-RESTAURANTS
Hôtel Atlantic
All 18 bedrooms...
Places to Stay and Eat in Midi-Pyrénées
The region’s best restaurants and hotels, including some you won’t find in the brochures
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HOTELS
Le...
Where to Stay and Eat in the Dordogne Valley
The region’s best restaurants and hotels, including some of the more unusual and unknown
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Things to See and Do in the Dordogne Valley
HOTELS
Castel Novel, near Brive
A Châteaux...
Where to Stay and Eat in Calvados
The best restaurants and hotels in the region, from A-list accommodation to homely seaside eateries
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Not-to-Miss Remembrance Sites in Calvados, Normandy
Things to See and Do in...
Break Outside the Box: Fantastical Self-Catering Retreats in France
There’s nothing like a home from home. With designers persistently upping the ante, why settle for vanilla digs when you could stay somewhere extraordinary? Rhiannon Rees looks at the properties that are taking self-catering...
Where to Stay and Eat in Auvergne
The best restaurants and hotels in the region, plus quirky accommodation to write home about
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Great Outdoor Activities in Auvergne
TOP HOTELS
Hôtel Le Bailliage
If you’re going to stay...
Back to School on the Riviera: Institut de Français in Villefranche-sur-Mer
Eighty students, 19 nationalities, and 8 hours a day of intensive French language instruction – these are only a few of the factors that have drawn diplomats, politicians, and Francophiles (like me) from around...
Where to Stay and Eat in Les Deux Charentes
The region’s best restaurants and hotels, plus some hidden gems, such as the bubbles in which you can sleep beneath the stars
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12 Great Places to...
“Wwoofing” Kismet in the Cevennes Mountains of Southern France
When my partner and I cast our proverbial net across the French farms listed on www.wwoof.net, fate intervened by matching us with just the right one: Le Lauzas, located in the Cevennes mountains of...
Where to Stay in Villefranche-sur-Mer
Looking for a quiet getaway in a quaint village on the Côte d'Azur? Nestled next to the vibrant city of Nice and not far from other scenic villages and sites to explore, Villefranche-sur-Mer has...