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Haute Cuisine Afloat - looking at barge hoidays

Mike Kingdom-Hockings of New Freebooters takes a look at luxury barge cruising.
I was lucky. When I started ski-ing, the UK’s Colin Murison Small had just invented the chalet party concept. In each resort, he’d take over one or more complete chalets, each providing about ten two-bed rooms, a communal area, a dining area and a […]

The Cévennes: a Labyrinth of Hills

Scott Anderson of The Enlightened Traveller offers us a glimpse of one of France’s wild walking places.

The Cévennes are located in south-central France. Whilst in an administrative sense they do not constitute a region, to all intents and purposes they possess a singular identity. Thus the ‘La Cevenne’ reference in the works of its most […]

Walking with the Camisards

One of the goals of www.lookat-france.com is to provide activity-based views of the information on the site as well as the traditional location-based view. This advertorial article, highlighting an original group walking tour offered by The Enlightened Traveller is one example of the kind of commercial offering we will publicise as well as providing […]

August Skies Bloom with Color - ballooning in France

by Mark Rowlee
The warm August sun had transformed the French countryside around Lorraine to a golden hue as hundreds of hot air balloons readied to take to the sky. We arrived at the old NATO airfield at Chambley-Bussier, just west of Metz, just in time to witness this spectacle.