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What to see and do in Amiens Hauts de France
Amiens is a great place to spend a weekend. It’s an introduction to French life in a northern French town that has a long history …
Guide to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Picardy, Hauts de France
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme is located at the heart of the Picardy coastline nestling gently at the mouth of the Somme. The town is charming, authentic and has …
Rue Picardy Home of Aviation Geniuses and Miracles
The town of Rue in Nord pas de Calais, Picardy, bears a certain anonymous obscurity with cunning fortitude in the Somme River basin half way …
Guide to Compiegne Picardy
Compiegne in Picardy, Hauts de France to the north of Paris is a vigorous, busy town. Its periods of victory and defeat though, still lie …
Auvers-sur-Oise in the footsteps of Van Gogh
Auvers-sur-Oise in Picardy, northern France, needs little introduction as the last place that Vincent van Gogh lived and painted in 1890, during the last seventy …
Saint Quentin Picardy and a Great War Secret
St. Quentin in Picardy is home to many outstanding architectural features including an extraordinary, medieval basilica that can be seen from miles around in the …
Doullens Picardy’s Hidden Pearl
I have travelled extensively by car in France over the last twenty five years. As I approach a new town or village that I am …
What to see and do in Amiens, France
Often identified by the spire of France’s largest cathedral from the autoroute, Amiens deserves a detour. A day out offers history, shopping, good food and …
Le Crotoy on the Somme France
It was a lovely spring weekend in the north of France, just perfect to indulge in the national French pastime of visiting a brocante… France …