Le Vasterival garden in Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Normandy, was created by an exiled Romanian princess. Home to some 10,000 plant species and varieties, the grounds are subtly landscaped with new perspectives around every corner...
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A few kilometres from Rouen, the Jardin Plume brings together the rationalism of French-style classical gardens and the chaos of perennials and grasslands. Contemporary yet timeless, this most original garden reaches a peak of per..
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Situated in the hanging valley of Varengeville-sur-Mer, in Haute-Normandie, the Bois des Moutiers is simultaneously an English Garden, a park with exotic species and an Arts & Crafts house. Antoine Bouchayer-Mallet shows us ar..
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The drink of choice in Normandy has always been good local cider -- but now a Briton who's set up shop in the French region has started brewing English bitter instead, and he's rapidly winning a local following.
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f you want to get away from it all, why not travel straight up. A new kind of hotel is catching on in France -- where your room is a cabin lodged high in the forest canopy. AFPTV went to stay in the rough-and-ready accommodation t..
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Cars have been banned from the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel in northwest France. People coming to the country's most visited tourist site now have to park their vehicles three kilometres from the historic mount, walk one kilometre, t..
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Normandy’s Pays d’Auge has beautiful landscapes and many fine local products to recommend it. Amongst the region’s producers of unfiltered cider, raw-milk cheese, Calvados, butter and cream, here is a select list of remarkable art..
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Jacques Garcia is one of the decorators most in demand worldwide. He has taken care, inter alia, of the decoration of Hotel Costes, Le Fouquet's and the Romantic Life Museum in Paris, the Mamounia in Marrakesh, and Jean-Georges Vo..
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A French Baroque masterpiece, the Chateau du Champ de Bataille needed a worthy setting. Geometrical gardens were required to prolong the architectural lines, in great French tradition, with immense perspectives and large pools. Ja..
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Legend has it that Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, came to Mont Tombe in 708 to dedicate a sanctuary here to the archangel Saint Michel. 1,300 years later, there’s still time to visit this masterpiece of religious architecture, which..
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In Blangy-le-Château (around 6 miles from Pont-l’Evêque and 12 miles from Deauville), François David has, for 50 years, been making marvellous unfiltered, natural sweet ciders that exalt the aromas of an old variety of apple, nowa..
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