The flight to Carcassonne, France may as well be you in a DeLorean with Marty McFly, because the minute you clap eyes on those city walls it’s 500AD all over again! In under 2 hours you’ve drunk a beaker of merlot with a random stranger, clapped a plane landing, and travelled back in time 2,500…

Saint Goustan stopped us in our tracks the moment we set eyes on it. This is not a town you have work hard to love! I say town, the towns name is actually Auray, but the port area is known as Saint Goustan. You may see it written as Auray-Saint-Goustan. But however you want to…

We’d been on our 2019 France road-trip for just over a week now and, like every other holiday we ever go on, we hadn’t stopped for breath! Lyon (part 4) was on display behind us in the rearview mirror and as much as it had been a blast (we were pretty much born for city-breaks)…

Some of the best holiday destinations France has to offer within a half-day’s drive of the Eurotunnel. Some of the most amazing regions in Northern France that you maybe haven’t considered before. Check our our top 5 suggestions for this years summer holiday…

A Weekend In Lyon This is part 4 in a series of travel-diary type posts from our 3 week France road-trip in 2019. If you would like to start from the beginning you can find part 1 here. Alternatively, if you are looking for a more comprehensive Lyon Travel Guide – this post might be…

Brittany is magical – King Arthur legends, neolithic stones, an ancient culture and more pretty towns than you can dare to fit into one holiday. Follow our top tips on all the best places in Brittany – castles, beaches, hidden gems and tourist attractions

This is part 3 in a series of travel-diary type posts from our 3 week France road-trip in 2019. If you would like to start from the beginning you can find part 1 here. Otherwise, settle back and enjoy a five-minute read of our day in Strasbourg and drive home through the Black Forest of…

The Best Things To Do In Lyon In 2 Days (+ itinerary & map) Lyon, France Lyon was one of those places that totally took us by surprise. Starting life as the Roman city Lugdunum (capital of Gaul) back in 43BC, we knew from a historical perspective there would be so many things to do…

Visiting Alsace Villages Having a vague idea of the beauty that we were about to encounter in Colmar, the town where we were staying for the Alsace section of our French road trip, it was a little surprising that once you are away from the ancient colourful town centre-ville, the rest of this UNESCO listed…

This Summer we embarked on a Roadtrip around France. Part 1 covers our first 2 days in Luxembourg and Nancy. Stay tuned for the next installment!