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As the Euroland crisis deepens food supply could become an issue, and here France scores handsomely being the eurozone member State most able to self-subsist.  John Ward, who writes the Slog blog says whatever happens the canny French will have bread on the table at an affordable price, a card which must beat German-made BMWs [...]

Many Australians have a love affair with France and here grape hunter Wendy Brown, a longtime Francophile and author of : “A Lot to do about the Lot”, offers a wineologue of a recent tasting trip she and husband Damien made through French terroirs. (Republished with permission and thanks from her blog on the Grape Hunter.) [...]

Shaggy doggy tales are legion so it comes as no surprise that a recent poll of pet owners across Europe purports to have uncovered fresh insights into Franco-German relationships as far as shared doggy secrets go. Yes a survey of 6000 EU pet owners suggests the French, at just 29% are the least likely to [...]

Tiring of Paris well head for  Lyon and some of the hidden corners of the country’s second city — that’s the unsurprising advice from the MyLittleParis website — offered here in the little video below.  Lyon of course has an envious reputation for its cuisine. Anyone lingering a while on a downtown pavement cafe soon [...]

“I’m not interested in the arguments about how Foie Gras gets made; I like what it tastes like,” writes Sandy Abbot, blogger and author whose recent rant about cooking has struck an Internet chord. “If you are easily pleased and like to read books, you can actually buy my life story. It’s a book!” he says in [...]

The Audit Court has flagged up France’s potential 10 billion euro deficit, but focused on their electoral promises, the new Socialist government has unveiled an ambitious tax and spend programme at odds with German-led austerity. Here a leading French investment house has made its views known in an open letter to President François Hollande. Letter of Edouard Carmignac [...]

The 99th TOUR DE FRANCE starts Saturday June 30th and runs to Sunday July 22nd 2012 covering a distance of 3,479 kilometres. The 99th Tour comprises one prologue and 20 stages. According to the official website there are: 9 flat stages; 4 medium mountain stages – one with a summit finish; 5 mountain stages – two [...]

Like any capital Paris can be a costly coffee break but its not all bad news. City Hall has launched an interactive map showing more than 60 spots where a cup of cafe costs just one euro or less! Inspired by callers asking where to find reasonably-priced coffee the editors of the Paris City Hall website challenged generous [...]

Stonings,  beheadings, body mutilations– the fire and brimstone of an earlier era — were largely overcome as enlightened society evolved. That they are today ongoing is, in our view, a condemnable outrage, worsened when captured in horrifyingly graphic YouTube video clips, perverting modern technology to the service of barbarism. The clip below (warning very graphic images) [...]