Tick tick tick. This travel blog is for the time poor but curious traveller who wants to see at a glance the top three things to tick on every trip. Why three? It keeps my travel blog short and sweet. It also ties in with a triptych, an artistic form from the middle ages which is an arrangement of three pictures together that tell a story.
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region covers a diverse area in France. From the mountains where you can find ritzy resorts like Chamonix to the gastronomic city of Lyon to the sloping vineyards of Beaujolais and the Rhône Valley – there’s loads to do for skiers, hikers, wine and food lovers and cyclists. Parts of the Rhône Valley, particularly around the town of Saint-Maurice-l’Exile has a lot of chemical, energy and maintenance […]
The French Riviera, as the Cote d’Azur is so often called, is actually part of the larger Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur (PACA) Sud region of France. We visited all three regions and you can read about our Provence and Alps adventures here – or continue on this page to learn more about what we discovered in the busy coastal towns and the quieter hilltop villages in the French Riviera. Mayhem and majesty […]
We thought we’d tracked down almost all of France’s beaux villages but in Autumn 2025 we stumbled across many more in the the Luberon region of Provence and the Cote d’Azur. Here’s a summary of the towns and sites that charmed us. Radiant Roussillon We have been to Roussillon before – once almost 30 years ago and almost once in 2024 when I booked a Home Exchange apartment in what […]