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Almost 800,000 Britons who travel across the Channel by car this year are at risk of being caught by speed traps due to a lack of knowledge, the AA has claimed. These UK drivers in France, predominantly visiting for summer holidays, could be caught out because speed camera allowances in France are much lower, according to … Read more
Forget airport stress – this is plain sailing: Why travelling by ferry can be less expensive and a lot more fun Fans say the ships can be less stressful, less expensive and a lot more fun Packing is easy as you can take as much kit as your car can carry Many ferries have cruise … Read more
If your image of Lyon is of a crowded airport en route to an annual ski trip, it’s time to think again. France’s third largest city was founded by the Romans in 43BC and is the gastronomic capital of the country, so pack your loosest trousers. But it’s easy to zap excess calories walking around … Read more
The Briare canal, dug by 12,000 labourers between 1604 and 1640 to link the Upper Loire valley and the Seine, is the oldest in France. Once a major trade and transport artery, nowadays the Briare loops through the middle of bucolic nowhere. As soon as the opulent barge Renaissance had crossed the Loire on M. … Read more
Return to the chateau! Dick and Angel reflect on ‘living the dream’ and how their stunning French home has been transformed since 2015 in new TV special Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel return to our TV screens this Sunday for three special episodes Their new series looks back at their biggest renovation projects … Read more
For just over a year, two of the greatest poets in the English language lived within a few miles of one another, in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. They were both bristling with energy. William Wordsworth, aged 27, had once walked 3,000 miles through France and Switzerland. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three years his junior, thought … Read more
‘Top up?’ inquired my husband, as we sat on the sun-dappled terrace. It’s hard to think of a nicer question. Especially when asked on a balmy afternoon in Beaune, the unofficial capital of Burgundy’s Côte-d’Or region, where we were simply doing what the good people of this dignified town do best – savouring one of … Read more
WHAT BOOK would historian and nature writer John Lewis-Stempel, take to a desert island? John Lewis-Stempel revealed that he’s currently reading Le Grand Meaulnes He would take Delphi ’s The Complete Works Of John Clare to a desert island He says reading BB’s The Little Grey Men sparked his interest in books By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
Airbus releases fascinating time-lapse video showing how it assembles its brand new A330neo The mesmerising video was filmed at the plane manufacturer’s enormous Toulouse, France, plant It shows the assembly and painstaking spray painting of an A330-900 for Air Mauritius Air Mauritius is now the first Southern Hemisphere-based carrier to have an A330neo in its … Read more