Category: Guest Blogs

Some artworks or artefacts can take you by surprise and leave you jaw-droppingly stunned. That is to say, you might take a passing glance at

Some of the greatest works of our culture, including those from literature and painting, can inspire our admiration, but also leave us feeling a sense

Wine has been made in Provence for a very long time. Grapevines were first planted in 600 B.C. by the Greeks who founded the city

With his silhouette of full-bent meerschaum pipe and deerstalker cap, Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognized figures in popular culture. He has probably

Émile Friant is a French artist whose name is little known today. Yet he was a painter of immense and widely acclaimed talent in his

Julia Wingfield finds France may not be 100% perfect for wheelchair users, but its friendly folk make up for it … I wasn’t always a

Business seems to be booming for the abbeys and monasteries in France. Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crisis don’t appear to have slowed

One of the best vegetarian meals I have ever had was on a mini-break in France, my native country. It was in Carteret, a small

“Imagination is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine” –

The French artist, Eugène Carrière, was a remarkable painter who worked almost exclusively in a colour palette of browns and deep yellows, using quick, semi-dry