Roger St. Pierre reveals one of the Celtic province’s star ingredients as news of the benefits of seaweed as a health food is spreading. It wraps your trendy sushi; the Welsh call it laverbread and traditionally eat it for breakfast with cockles and bacon; it puts the wobble in your childhood jellies; it’s used [...]
Saint Omer, France, is one of the most popular towns for visitors to the Nord-Pas de Calais region. Easily accessible from Calais or Dunkirk it offers a taste of French charm and authenticity and provides much for visitors to do and see. It is the perfect French day trip destination from the UK, provides [...]
Beziers in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon, in the south of France is a fabulous weekend destination with direct flights from several UK airports. Beziers airport is about 15km south east of the town with a shuttle bus service which connects with arrivals and runs to Beziers train and bus stations. The train journey from Paris [...]
I have been fortunate to have lived in three departments in France during my nine years here after emigrating from Britain. The first was department 59 – the Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais); the second was department 11 – Aude (on the Mediterranean coast); the third is department 12 – the Aveyron, in the Midi-Pyrénées, South [...]
Roger st Pierre takes a Corsican holiday on one of the most beautiful islands in the Med… I have recently come to the conclusion that the biggest liar I am ever likely to meet is my own memory. They often say you should never return to the places of fondest recall because they will never [...]
Paris to Reims is a simple trip by train and who would want to miss out on such a fabulous day out in famous Champagne! If you are in Paris you can easily have a wonderful champagne tasting day trip and the journey from Gare de l’Est, Paris to Reims Central station is around 45 [...]
La Coupole in St Omer is an incredible historical site – a huge World War II domed bunker left behind by the German occupiers in this little northern French town. I’ve visited it before with friends and family, it is considered to be one of the key World War II sites in the area, [...]
BY ROGER ST. PIERRE Despite his French name, veteran globetrotting writer Roger St. Pierre is proudly British. He is, though, passionately Francophile and has been to every one of France’s 94 metropolitan departments. He’s also a renowned music and cycling journalist so the Jazz Sous Les Pommiers festival could not have been a more appropriate [...]
By Kathleen Barrington, Paris When we bought a lovely ground-floor apartment in the Marais district of Paris several years ago, we set about finding ways to enjoy Paris with two kids in tow. We no longer head straight for a Kir Royal in a fancy restaurant with a Seine view. These days our Paris [...]
I found myself in Calais recently and decided to visit the Lace Museum as I’ve heard so much about it from friends who’ve been there. What an absolutely amazing treasure trove this place is. Calais became famous for its lace making in the 19th Century when English lace makers, famous for their lace making [...]
Our Newsletter is packed with information, upcoming events and ideas. Subscribe to The Good Life France Newsletter by Email
.
.
Well, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the sheep across the road has gone to the great pasture in the sky. When I bought my house nine years ago it came with a sheep! The lady who owned the house before me had let the man across the road [...]
The allure of the good life in France and the charms of the beautiful town of Beziers ensnared British expat Mark Binmore who runs the highly successful Maison de l’Orb, a beautiful B&B. Mark told us that he lived in London since the early 1990s, worked as a pub landlord for several breweries, is the [...]
Expats in France Donna and Dave Faulkner fell in love with Deux-Sevres in the Poitou-Charentes region when they visited friends who lived there. When Dave was unexpectedly offered a job – they said goodbye to Britain and jumped head first into life in France in their new home which needed a bit of renovation as [...]
British expat Sue Aitken lives in south west France and runs Blackhen Education – a business that she set up after planning to move to Spain to be a teacher. She and her partner travelled through France on their way to jobs and a life in Spain but they fell in love with [...]
How two Brits met and changed their lives with a move to France… Chris was a veteran of 30 years in the Metropolitan police, running his own outdoor activity business specializing in mountain biking, walking and climbing, father to three grown-up children and mentor to many more. Charlotte was a classic single “Social Butterfly”, [...]
I was recently asked to write about expats in France, people who leave their homes in all areas of the world to go to France to live. I thought back over the years about the many expats I’ve met, interviewed (I am a journalist not just a crazy person going round firing questions at [...]
It’s good to know some things stay the same When my mother bought her holiday house in northern France 35 years ago, I had no idea how large a part this lovely country was going to play in my life. I was eleven at the time, and simply enjoyed the trips across the Channel [...]
As you might know by now, I cannot resist a French flea market and the one I went to on Sunday on my French countryside jaunt was particularly small and not great but on the last stall in the road there was a cage with a cockerel. The sign said “Cockerel Nagasaki €5.00”. The [...]
