Where to do a river cruise in France
Browsing placidly on channels that have witnessed armies, monarchs and centuries of history you can discover great city views and you can take advantage of a slow and pleasant mobility while doing a bike tour. If it intrigues you, you can take a look at the offer of Le Boat, offering ships and boats for [...]
Tour de Garde: sleeping in an ancient tower in Rocamadour
Are you ready to spend the night in the guard tower of the Castle of Cantecor? To do this you must travel in the south of France to Rocamadour, and go through the history of France, until the 12th century. La Tour de Garde dates back to that period and today, 900 years later, it [...]
The solar furnace of Font-Romeu Via in France
We are in Font-Romeu-Via in France and more precisely in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees. We are on the border with Catalonia and Barcelona is not so far away from here. And this strange building is a solar furnace, the most powerful in the world, built here, and not elsewhere, [...]
Most beautiful beaches in the world | En Vau in France
The French use the term Calanque to define a bay or a creek, which flows between steep walls of rock, usually limestone, typical of some areas of their Mediterranean coast. By their very nature, usually they are inaccessible places, which can hide hidden paradises as in Corsica and the French Riviera. Among them, Calanque En-Vau [...]
France | The city and the medieval festival of Semur en Auxois in Burgundy
That’s why we go back again in those parts, to be precise from the parts of Semur en Auxois, in Burgundy (just north of Dijon and very south of Paris). We are going to Anchor in Semur because the first and the two are held here June medieval days to celebrate the long history of [...]
The Amphitheatre of Arles in Provence, France
“Mom, but is here the Colosseum?”. It was a Saturday in August when we arrived in the amphitheater of Arles, and if he wouldn’t want it to be a bullfight in the programme we were not going to be able to join this 20,000-seat amphitheater,which by the way is very well preserved. Bullfights aside, the [...]
Sleeping under the stars in a wooden cube in France
The owners of Original solutions have placed the accommodation in a different place around France: there are large barrels in which they were arranged with tables for eating and tasting wine. Additionally, there’s the trailer Libertad wooden gypsy style which is spacious and can accommodate up to 4 people. But the real news is the “Les Carré [...]
Saint Guilhem le Désert | A medieval village in the South of France
While browsing through our preferred tourist destinations in France I came across a place with an intriguing name, Saint Guilhem le Désert. Today we return in this perfectly preserved medieval town in the south of France (just north of Montpellier) surrounded by nature and enriched by Abbey Gellone, a jewel of the ninth century which [...]
The Abandoned castle of Vettignè, in Santhià, Piedmont
Just imagine being close to an exterior winter dawn with fields and sparse trees and off the massif of Monte Rosa in the background reflecting the first rays of the sun, and the towers of the Castle, towering over the walls. Everything seems truly beautiful and evocative. Too bad that the castle was abandoned, shame [...]
