The French Alps Experience begins long before your boots touch a mountain trail. It starts with light — the pale gold glow on the summit of Mont Blanc ... Read more!
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First Trip to France from North America: Tech Tips & Preparation
Your first trip to France is exciting — but before you start picturing café terraces and cathedral squares, there’s one practical question to answer: will your phone and ... Read more!
Secrets of France: A Traveller’s Invitation to Look Closer
The secrets of France are rarely found in guidebooks, and almost never in postcards — but you start noticing them the moment you live in the country long enough to ... Read more!
Your Guide to Dijon: Old Town, Museums, and Gastronomy
My relationship with Dijon began long before I ever stepped off a train there.The first time I visited the city, I was a teenager travelling with my parents.We ... Read more!
Renting a Car in Lyon: A Perfect Road Trip to the Alps of Savoie
My first road trip to the Alps happened long before I knew the region by name. As a child, it was simply our summer holiday — long drives through ... Read more!
Summer Holidays on the Ile de Ré: Villages, Nature & Slow Living
I still remember the first time I saw the long bridge that links the mainland to the Ile de Ré. There was a faint shimmer on the water, ... Read more!
Discover the Kaysersberg Valley in the Vosges
We are here in the Welche country, that is to say, in a part of Alsace where the language and culture are traditionally Romance. The Kaysersberg Valley in ... Read more!
Louis XIV and Mazarin: How France Quietly Gained Alsace
Let's imagine Louis XIV and Mazarin meeting in October 1648, when Europe awoke from a thirty-year nightmare.In Münster and Osnabrück, pens finally replaced cannons: the Peace of Westphalia ... Read more!
Zimtsterne: Recipe for Traditional German Cinnamon Star Cookies
Zimtsterne (literally cinnamon stars) are among the most iconic German Christmas cookies. Fragrant with cinnamon, almonds, and a hint of lemon zest, these snowy white stars appear every ... Read more!
The Peace of Westphalia and Alsace : from Habsburg to France
This research on the Peace of Westphalia and Alsace tells how a peace treaty signed in 1648 not only ended the Thirty Years’ War, but also changed the fate ... Read more!
The Peace of Westphalia: The 1648 Treaties That Redrew Europe
The Peace of Westphalia: The End of an Endless WarBy the mid-seventeenth century, Europe was exhausted.For thirty years, the continent had been ravaged by a conflict of unprecedented scale ... Read more!
The Location vs La Location: Don’t Rent the Wrong Word in France
When I was living in Australia, I often found myself saying, La France me manque — I miss France.It was one of those little French sentences I repeated over and over, ... Read more!
Halloween in France – Origins, Culture and Controversies
Each October, Halloween in France makes its appearance: pumpkins, ghosts and cobwebs begin to fill shop windows across the country. Yet, while Halloween is one of the most popular ... Read more!
Speaking French with Confidence: A Traveller’s Guide
Speaking French with confidence may feel like a dream. Picture yourself strolling through a Parisian market, pointing at a glistening tarte aux pommes, and asking for it—in French. ... Read more!
Rhume, Rhum, Rome: A French Pronunciation Survival Guide
When I was living in Australia, I often found myself saying, La France me manque — I miss France.It was one of those little French sentences I repeated over and over, ... Read more!
To Travel vs Travailler: A False Friend That Works Too Hard
When I was living in Australia, I often found myself saying, La France me manque — I miss France.It was one of those little French sentences I repeated over and over, ... Read more!
To Rest vs Rester: A False Friend Worth a Nap
When I was living in Australia, I often found myself saying, La France me manque — I miss France.It was one of those little French sentences I repeated over and over, ... Read more!
The Architecture of Nancy: A Mirror of a Thousand Years of History
The architecture of Nancy tells the history of the former capital of the Dukes of Lorraine.Nancy is the city where I was born. My city of the heart, ... Read more!
The Vosges Farm Inns: A Meal with the Taste of the Mountains
The Vosges farm inns may not ring a bell if you’ve never travelled to this corner of north-eastern France, yet they are among the most authentic and heart-warming ... Read more!
Place Diana in Paris: How a Flame Became a Memorial
Many people visiting the Flame of Liberty at Place Diana in Paris think it was built in memory of Princess Diana. I used to think that too. After ... Read more!
