France

How our rich new neighbours can help solve the affordable housing shortage

31 August 2013 9:00 am

The mega-rich are best housed behind high fences, on wooded estates patrolled by dogs; that way, they don’t have to…

Low life

31 August 2013 9:00 am

This time last year the postman delivered a picture postcard depicting a village square in Provence. The photograph on the…

Low life

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Hotel Trepaner, St Raphael, French Riviera: I have read all ten reviews on this site. The overall rating (given by…

Every little helps as the big banks continue to clean up their act

10 August 2013 9:00 am

By and large it was a good week for the big banks — underpinned by encouraging news from the wider…

Unassuming: Port-en-Bessin today

Notes on…Normandy

20 July 2013 9:00 am

There are some, I know, who for whom Normandy means the three Cs — cider, cream and calvados. But if,…

Sarko strikes back

6 July 2013 9:00 am

The defeated president is ready to retake his party – and wreak his revenge on François Hollande

French disconnection

6 July 2013 9:00 am

One of the many cultural initiatives to have come out of France in the past 50 years — and therefore…