What you may ask is Lille 3000? When Lille became the European Capital of Culture for 2004, the people and the council of Lille took it very seriously but they didn’t want it to be for one year only. A programme of culture was embarked upon and called Lille 3000. Since 2004 the city has [...]
Of all the areas in France, Provence is to many, the most irresistible, the most charming and the best of them all. It’s a vast portion of France and stretches from the mountains of the Hautes-Alpes in the north to the Mediterranean coast in the south, from Arles in the west to Monaco and the [...]
What’s on and where in France in July– here is the definitive guide to help you plan to get the most from your visit or your area. We don’t want to give you any bad information so we only put the dates if we’re absolutely certain of them but we do give you a website wherever we can [...]
What’s on and where in France in June – here is the definitive guide to help you plan to get the most from your visit or your area. We don’t want to give you any bad information so we only put the dates if we’re absolutely certain of them but we do give you a [...]
When you live in France or visit, it’s really clear from the amount of boulangeries (bakeries) there are and the amount of French people you see walking around with a baguette under their arm, just how important bread is to the French.
Someone asked me the other day if there were any major cultural differences between expats and the French and actually when I think about it – there are. One of the biggest things I’ve found is that French people are very private – far more so than us British, American or Australian expats in the [...]
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The papers are currently full of news about proposals to mount wind turbines on the beaches of Normandy – including at least one of the D-Day landing beaches. Some newspapers are calling it an “invasion” – emotional words, and this is a very provocative subject. The proposal is to erect 75 of the huge [...]
The Good Life France talks to Roger St Pierre – an award-winning writer who has visited every one of France’s 94 metropolitan departments as a cyclist, journalist, author and Francophile… Roger, who The Good Life France is honoured to include amongst its very talented group of writers, tells me he taught himself French by [...]
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 [...]
