Traveller Tips

for & by travellers to French speaking countries.

Do you have any tips you'd like to share - in French or English - that will help make holidaying or living in a French speaking country that much more enjoyable?

First comment, a quote from Mark Twain;

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language"

Sablet Village in Provence

Where to stay - what to do

Spécial vacances au ski

Ski holiday special

La Manche

French side of the Channel

Visiting Albi

World heritage site

Pieds-à-terre à Paris

Parisian Pieds-à-terre

The Perils of the Baguette!