Some things are unique to France. Certainly it’s a very different sort of place when it comes to April 1st. They don’t have April Fool’s Day in the sense they...
Posted by | March 5, 2019 | Wine and food
Do wine labels speak to you? If they don't then at least hopefully the wine should. Our wine guru Denis Sherman of Elden Wines reads wine labels like Gandalf reads...
Posted by | January 27, 2019 | History
You get a huge sense of history cruising the French canals. Half close your eyes, look back through the mists of time, and you can almost see the Four Musketeers...
Posted by | January 22, 2019 | Places we visit
The whole wide world knows the name Leonardo da Vinci – born in 1452, the illegitimate polymath artist/scientist/inventor son of a Tuscan notary and his peasant lover. As early as...
New Year’s Eve is a big night in France when you wish the world 'Bonne Année' – it's much more boisterous and roisterous than Christmas. New Year’s Eve dinners start...
Posted by | December 22, 2018 | Update
It’s Christmas in France and ‘le saison de bonhomie a tout le monde’ is celebrated in true festive tradition to ensure a Joyeux Noel in France (Happy Christmas). Although, of...
Posted by | September 29, 2018 | Wine and food
There’s a saying in France that ‘on mange avec les yeux’ – literally ‘they eat with their eyes’. Nothing is more important in France than food (ok – perhaps wine...
Posted by | August 27, 2018 | Wine and food
Meet Dennis – our Burgundian wine guru extraordinaire… There is an old saying ‘the harder I work the luckier I get’. We think our buddy Dennis is lucky enough to...
Posted by | August 2, 2018 | In the media
Taking each day as it comes on a barge on the Yonne river in southern Burgundy is one of the most relaxing ways to spend a summer European holiday, writes...
Posted by | July 29, 2018 | Wine and food
Whilst we were looking at things close to home in Burgundy’s vineyards, just across the border disaster strikes Champagne, vicious hailstorms decimating the vineyards. The fact was made all the...
