Joining forces

A new group for authors in France's Grand Ouest region - Brittany, Normandy and the Pays de la Loire

A short walk in the snow

A few photos of the local landscape

A guide to French drivers

Useful tips about driving in France for Brits and other ex-pats

Tags:

The Orne in Autumn

Normandy's most beautiful department takes on its fall colours

Tags:

The Orne's gorgeous landscapes

This beautiful area of Normandy is known for its rolling countryside - but it sometimes rises to more spectacular heights

Tags:

The Orne revealed

Normandy's most beautiful department features in a new fine-art photography calendar

Tags:

Sharp practice

One of the challenges of living in a foreign culture is not understanding the rules. And there are dangers in assuming that others stick to them - especially when it comes to insurance

Tags:

A sense of the foreign

France is a land of many countries, so going 'abroad' takes just a short drive

Tags:

Bill Maher on France

What Americans could learn from the French

Tags:

Goodbye to number plate snobbery?

The departmental numbering of licence plates on French cars has long been a source of amusement for kids and prejudice for adults. Now it's finally set to disappear

Tags:

I saw a mouse ... where?

We're accustomed to finding dead bodies in the house. We get at least one a day, usually more. But sometimes we find a live one.

Tags:

Four heads are better than two

After eleven years, we've finally got to meet two of the characters who've been sharing our home

Tags:

Battling the powers that be

A demonstration in the Mayenne town of Ernée was the latest salvo in a long-running battle against nuclear power

Tags:

The year summer never happened

It's one of those beautifully melancholic autumn days. The only problem is, it's August

Tags:

1066 and all that

After waiting for 41 years, I finally got to see the Bayeux Tapestry. It was worth the wait

Tags: