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2 months ago | 
francetoday.com | Dominic Bliss |Ruth Fuchs Hallett
First published: January 30, 2025 by Dominic Bliss From cold yoga to winter wild swimming, Samoëns, in Haute-Savoie, is the place to go for some cold therapy. 📢 As you scroll through the beautiful images, why not listen to our narrated article? It’s a great way for France Today Members to dive deeper into the story while enjoying the visuals.
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2 months ago | 
francetoday.com | Alexander Lobrano |Ruth Fuchs Hallett
A restaurant for special occasions, La Palme d’Or at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes has been taken over by the intrepid chef Jean Imbert who has delivered a superb experience for dinners. The swashbuckling chef Jean Imbert, who in 2022 displaced Alain Ducasse from his long reign over the dining rooms of the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris, is on a roll.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Martha Sessums |Ruth Fuchs Hallett
France Today ambassador Martha Sessums rounds up the must-see exhibitions and unmissable events for confirmed Francophiles beyond the shores of La Belle France…Direct from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition arrives in Los Angeles. The collection examines how Caillebotte viewed masculine forms and created portraits of men from a perspective that radiates well today. He pictured men in their natural surroundings, doing work or sports. Oarsmen rowing. Floor scrapers.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Sylvia Edwards Davis |Ruth Fuchs Hallett
The latest news in culture, tourism and sustainable travel from France and its regions. The skills of Parisian zinc roofers and ornamentalists have entered UNESCO’s official list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The distinctive grey roofs of the Haussmannian buildings built in Paris during the 19th century used zinc as a lightweight option to reduce the size of the frame and increase the liveable space.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Alexander Lobrano |Ruth Fuchs Hallett
At Aldehyde, in Paris’ Marais, chef Youssef Marzouk tells the moving story of his family and recalls the ancestral tastes of coastal Tunisia.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Alexander Lobrano |Ruth Fuchs Hallett |Steve Turnbull
France’s heated seawater spas provide the ultimate relaxed escapism. Here we take a revitalising break in Royan, on the coast of Charente-Maritime. In France, a country of almost endless discoveries and diversions, few things make me happier than what I call the Big Dip.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Caroline Mills |Ruth Fuchs Hallett |Steve Turnbull
Beyond the centre of Bourges are multiple options to see the city from an alternative perspective, so do allow time to explore. Less than 2km from the town centre, this vast lake includes options for angling, sailing, rowing and canoeing. There’s plenty of green space, too, along with a lake beach, tennis, boules and volleyball courts. An artistic creation on a grand scale and the work of one man, Jean Linard, who, having handmade the bricks, built himself a cathedral.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Caroline Mills |Ruth Fuchs Hallett |Steve Turnbull
Civilised Bourges is rightly deserving of its award as European Capital of Culture 2028. But there’s more to see in the city than culture. The mint is pungent. It comes to life as the dried leaves wallow in boiling water, presented to me in a teapot that looks like a shiny regal samovar. There must be 35 degrees of heat from the summer afternoon sun, yet the steaming mint tea, grown and made in the Berry countryside just outside the city of Bourges, provides a refreshingly cool interlude.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Sophie Gardner-Roberts |Ruth Fuchs Hallett |Alexander Lobrano |Stephen Clarke
Visit the French Property Exhibition on January 25-26th in London, and make that dream of owning a house in France a possibility! As a Francophile who travels to France regularly, you’ve probably daydreamed of having the keys to your own little French farmhouse or hip city apartment from which you can explore la belle France at leisure. Indeed, having a ‘home away from home’ will always make your vacation in France feel all the more special.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
francetoday.com | Ruth Fuchs Hallett |Alexander Lobrano |Stephen Clarke
One lucky family can look forward to the trip of a lifetime at France’s first ever amusement park. The prize is for two nights’ bed and breakfast at Ecolodgee and one day at Futuroscope, plus a day at Aquascope for two adults and two children. Bonne chance!
