Want to get the inside scoop on delicious places to dine? Those special spots that aren’t overrun by tourists (even though you’re a tourist)?…

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How does one travel to France during a pandemic? With all the (changing) rules for leaving your country and entering France, it’s become a…

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A visit to the Côte d’Azur should include a stop to see the remarkable gardens of France at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild—there are 9—even…

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Skip the gambling at the Monte Carlo casino. Venture to the Musée Oceanographique de Monaco and stroll along the harbour with its ultra-expensive yachts…

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My close friend, Laurie, who I have travelled with to France numerous times, shares her story about her introduction to the Christmas tradition of…

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She sang and danced—provocatively. She wore a banana skirt. But she was also a French Resistance fighter, a spy, a civil rights activist, a…

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On November 11, 1918 the hostilities of World War I ended. And as we know, Remembrance Day honours the soldiers who have died in…

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Never heard of Tarascon-sur-Ariège? Neither had I. But once I started to plan the southern France part of my 2-month trip (Trip #33), this…

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There are some things you can’t learn in a classroom. My many trips to France taught me so much about the French way of…

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When I was heading from Autignac to Prades in the southern part of the Occitanie region (Trip #33), the owner of the Château where…

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