France Pictures
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Loire Valley, central France, a lush and lovely stretch of varied and stunning chateaux in a rural landscape, this was one of our best French holidays. |
Carcassonne, south France, a massive and truly Disneyesque castled village, though a bit off the beaten vacation track. |
Paris, France, a selection of recent photos of tourist attractions with useful compact information. |
Nice, Cote d'Azur, one our favourite French cities, four pages full of recent pictures and helpful hints. |
France's beaches, a huge range of beach photos and worthwhile facts from all along the east Atlantic coast to the Côte d'Azur and Corsica in the southwest. |
Aix-en-Provence, pretty and entertaining though not exactly our cup-of-tea, decide for yourself from our images. |
Avignon, Provence, now that's more like it! A fantastic walled city with amazing palace, bridge and history! |
Arles, Provence, small, quiet but loaded with history and imbued with art, our pictures tell the story. |
St Tropez, Cote d'Azur, we're not fans of this elitist town or the traffic tourists need to plow through to get there. And we have the photos to prove it! |
Cannes, Cote d'Azur, home to a surfeit of pretentious people but it still has considerable charm, good beaches, great beach restaurants and staggering firework displays. |
Menton, Cote d'Azur, tiny, tranquil and right at the Italian end of the French Riviera, Menton offers a couple of pretty good beaches and a pretty dull night life. And that's how they like it. |
Biarritz, Atlantic coast way down south, this is surf city France and buzzing core of French Basqueness and terrific seafood. |
St Jean de Luz, Atlantic coast, this is a bit of a secret delight for us, a serene and beautiful seaside town on the Spanish border, near Biarritz, with fantastic beaches. |
Arcachon, north Atlantic coast, a small seaside town that only springs into life in the summer but adjoins the most awesome dune in France. |
Verdon Gorge, south France, near the Côte d'Azur, a mini Grand Canyon with fantastic precipitous drives and excellent river activities. Hikes too.
Pont du Gard, south France near Avignon, this attraction is a staggering Roman aqueduct with lovely walks and bike trails fanning out into verdant countryside.
Nimes, south France, worth a look for tourists passing by by don't make a huge effort.
Annecy, northeast France, near Geneva and the Alps, this lakeside city has a gorgeous old town and brilliant lake shore walks, beaches, bike tracks.
Saint-Paul de Vence, Cote d'Azur, another popular, cute walled town near Nice, much favoured by celebrities.
Grasse, Cote d'Azur, fans of perfume may enjoy the free tours of historic perfume factories but we think the town is an overcrowded, uninteresting, traffic-heavy dump.
Eze village, Cote d'Azur - it's not a real, living village but Eze's medieval village hanging over the French Riviera and Monaco is sensational and a tourist-must-see.
Monaco Principality, well it's not France but might as well be, packed with glitterati but accessible, parkable and quite a lot of cost-free sights for the budget traveller, along with acceptable eating costs.
Corsica island, Mediterranean Sea, love the place, a couple of hours by car ferry from Nice, brilliant beaches, hikes and rock formations. The pictures tell the story.
France tourism is the number one European holiday target, competing with Britain for English-speaking travellers but winning the tourism war generally with its array of monster attractions - gloriously romantic Paris, warm and relaxed Côte d'Azur towns and beaches, the chateaux studded Loire Valley, endless little fortified villages, fine skiing, mad paragliding or spectacular hiking in the mighty French Alps, surfing on the Atlantic coast, burning on the beaches, lazily slurping fine wine and enjoying excellent cuisine at good prices everywhere, these are some of the ways to learn about France's joie de vivre.
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