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“Every year there is a food fair in Dijon, each time with a different theme.” Marlene tells me.
“How ‘Fascinating’.”  I reply. “I have managed to sustain myself for more than three score years w

Thirty years after the English first discovered its rolling hills and beautiful houses, the region is once again in fashion. It is hardly surprising the English love it: it looks just like home, English is spoken almost everywhere, there is more sunshine and properties are a third of the price...

Are meddlesome bureaucrats sapping France's famous joie de vivre?

WE'VE BEEN spending quite a lot of time recently in the village mairie. 'Mairie' doesn't translate into English very easily, because there's no exact equivalent. In large towns you can say Town Hall, but that's much too grand for a village of 600 souls like ours...

Can anything put a Brit off property in France? You might think a strong euro would do the trick, but while new developments in Spain are collapsing on a daily basis, investors in French property are seeing no such disasters. If anything the market is buzzing...

The old man didn’t look like a typical ‘English’ version of a Frenchman.
You know the type: onions, garlic, beret, bicycle…
He was wearing a dark flat hat, his ‘blues’ (working man’s overalls)

GATWICK AIRPORT, North Terminal, Thursday afternoon: Josephine and I are waiting at the arrivals barrier. Near us taxi drivers are holding up recognition placards saying things like 'Mr Twelvetrees' and 'Memsahib Fashions', so we quickly make one inscribed 'Les Jeudistes'...