France
France seduces travellers with its unfalteringly familiar culture, woven around cafe terraces, village-square markets and lace-curtained bistros with their plat du jour chalked on the board.
France has been home for two decades yet I still feel on holiday – French art de vivre (art of living) is just too good. From my Haute-Savoie house on Lake Geneva's southern shore, the Jura's dark-green hills and un café in the wisteria-draped village bar are my wake-up call. Weekends of endless possibilities punctuate the gentle rhythm of village life: art museums in Lyon and Paris, Alpine hiking and skiing, paddle boarding on the glittering lake, road trips to Beaujolais and Burgundy and other regions so different they could be another country. France’s sheer variety is amazing.
recent France adventures
France
/ Sep 2021
What was supposed to be a surfing holiday, turned into fest of eating and drinking, and lots of fun with Rocco.
France
/ May 2021
Enough of that Covid craziness - the time has finally come to go on proper holidays again.
France
/ Sep 2020
What was planned to be a cycling holiday, ended up with a lot of surfing instead.
France
/ May 2019
No rest for the wicked! These holidays were like a small training camp: daily cycling, running or swimming, both for me and the Beast. Only our "coach" seemed to take it easy and appeared pretty relaxed.