France

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 Chateau de Mercues

Stunning Chateau de Mercues, Cahors

Cahors gave the world Malbec – and Chateau de Mercues, which makes some of the best, has added food worthy of the rarefied appellation, not to mention “grand confort” in which to sleep off a multi-course dinner slaked with many vintages.

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Montpellier Antigone fountain

Montpellier. Modern metropolis with a mediaeval heart 

Anthea Gerrie reports on Montpellier, a vastly under-visited city in southern France. It’s a modern city but with a mediaeval beating heart.

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Anthea Gerrie travels to France to visit Les Glorieuses Festival, a celebration of poulet de Bresse, some of the finest chicken in the world.

Les Glorieuses Festival. Bourg en Bresse

“Les Glorieuses” de Bresse. It’s the taste of the finest chicken in the world whose memories of Bourg en Bresse will stay with you – Glorieuse, indeed.

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Allard

So, you’re in Paris, craving proper bistro cooking look no further than Allard, an 85-year-old Parisian institution in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près

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Domaine de Perches

Domaine de Perches, a 17th century wine chateau restored with immaculate modern taste, is the perfect base for touring beautiful Occitanie

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Les Pins at Golf D'Hardelot

Les Pins at Golf d’Hardelot

Hardelot’s two golf courses Le Pins and Les Dunes; tricky twin tracks on rolling French Pine forest that has, I suspect, attracted far more golf balls within its branches than the town has had visitors over the years.

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