A Pyreneen mountain summit in the Hautes Pyrenees. A savage, snow covered solitary place, where wolves howl eerily in the blizzards. Or so Louis XIV believed.
Read more: The breathtaking Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the Pyrenees. Photo Friday 11 June 2010
French Connections has been featuring in the French travel and property press once again
Lourdes in SW France has 5 million visitors per year from the sick, the devout & the just plain curious.
Read more: Lourdes - the largest pilgrimage site in the world. Photo Friday 28 May 2010
Moving scenes in the Channel today as a flotilla of small ships sails from Ramsgate to Dunkerque, marking the 70th anniversary of the World War II evacuation from Northern France.
Read more: Remembering French-British co-operation at Dunkerque
'Oh look, there’s a little town called Betton on the map, close to this road and beside a river. Maybe that’s a good place for our picnic lunch.' It was one of my better map-reading suggestions.
Read more: St Martin's church and the River Ille at Betton in Brittany. Photo Friday 21 May 2010