Category: Guest Blogs

Whether you simply pass the imposing, turned inside out, building or are viewing it from one of Paris’ look out points like the iconic Eiffel

The French masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa is an emotionally wrenching painting that depicts a notorious real-life human tragedy: the appalling suffering of people

The Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is located some fifty miles southwest of Paris on a small hill overlooking the city of Chartres. The Cathedral and

The French female artist Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré captured the working lives of everyday women in the countryside of north-western France. One of her finest

The world’s most comprehensive and coherent collection of astonishing Art Nouveau artefacts can be found not in Paris, but in one house in the French

Moving to France. It’s a topic that has spawned countless stories, films, and books. Each one is filled with amusing, heart-warming, and just as often

From the age of four, Louis Andrews grew up in the small Aravis ski resort of Manigod (part of the large La Clusaz ski area),

Travel writer Katja Gaskell goes walk about in the mountains where the sound of music echoes… The sun is hanging low in the sky when

‘Look and Learn’ was a finger-wagging catchphrase directed at many children in the 1960s as a spur to self-improvement. This determined drive to intellectual betterment

“That is the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”