Welcome to The Good Life France Winter 2022 magazine, a truly beautiful issue filled with fabulous photos and brimming with inspiring features – stunning destinations, mouth-watering recipes, guides, giveaways and more.

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The Good Life France Magazine Winter 2022

Stunning destinations…

In this issue we whisk you off to the winter wonderlands of the French Alps, Nice and fairy tale Alsace. Discover picture postcard pretty Antibes’ best kept secret (until now!) – the annual event which sees chefs create the biggest bûche de Noël (yule log cake) in the world! And, explore sweet Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, the pickled in the past town that’s famous for its aniseed sweets inspired by the Romans!

See Paris in winter at its sparkliest and most festive. And discover the French connection in the great British Christmas Pudding (yes really!). Follow in Napoleon’s footsteps to discover a legacy of famous sites in Paris. Discover the glorious countryside, tumbling rivers and prehistoric sites of Ardeche, Rouen – the ideal city break destination, and the Rhone Valley which has some of the steepest vineyards in France. Lovely Lille, the historic capital of Hauts-de-France in the far north, gorgeous Gascony and many more stunning destinations are featured. And as always we bring you some off the beaten track beauties like Pays de Gex in the French Alps, and Chartreuse – where you can take a most unusual walk in the mountains!And we visit the little-known but fabulous Christmas markets in Metz, northeastern France!

Scrumptious recipes and giveaways

Foodies will love the delicious recipes – from snow eggs to festive eclairs, as well as bûche de Noël. Plus there’s a mouth-watering feature about the gut-busting classics of tasty Toulouse. And there are some great giveaways in this issue too – you’ve got to be in it to win it.

Discover what’s new, the best tours,  practical guides and much, much more…

Don’t forget to subscribe here – the magazine is free. And please share this issue with your friends – that’s free too!

And now – it’s time to read it. Just click on the link and you’ll be whisked off to 120 pages of France, the next best thing to being there: The Good Life France Magazine Winter 2022

I hope that you will love reading it as much as we’ve loved putting it together for you. It’s brimming with beautiful photos, fabulous features, recipes, giveaways and guides. And as always it is completely free to read, subscribe and share.

Janine

Janine Marsh
Editor

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Welcome to The Good Life France Magazine Autumn 2022.

This is a seriously fabulous issue and it’s just teeming with tempting French destinations, recipes, guides and more to inspire daydreams and bring France to you wherever you are:

The Good Life France Magazine Autumn 2022

Discover Aix, the ‘Little Paris’ of Provence, one of the most colourful and gorgeous cities in France. Explore the historic region of Beaune, a land of wine and castles. Push the boat out in beautiful Bordeaux, a bucket list destination for sure. And head to Normandy to explore its many charms – from the Alabaster Coast to Ouistreham, a little fishing village with a big history.

See the stork villages of Alsace and sigh over the pickled-in-the-past, post-card pretty perched town of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert where they love to tell stories! Discover how Alexandre Dumas, author of the Three Musketeers, was in real life a total foodie! And there are some stunning recipes for those of you who also love French cuisine – including an irresistibly scrumptious raspberry and brioche tart!

Find out to see the most breath-taking Lavender fields in Provence. Climb castles in the air in Dordogne. Chill out in exquisite Villefranche-sur-Mer and little villages of the French Riviera. And explore the UNESCO-listed treasures of Nice.

Discover what’s new, the best tours, language lesson, practical guides and much, much more…

Don’t forget to subscribe here – the magazine is free. And please share this issue with your friends – that’s free too!

And now – it’s time to read it. Just click on the link and you’ll be whisked off to 120 pages of France, the next best thing to being there: The Good Life France Magazine Autumn 2022 – totally FREE.

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Bonjour and a great big welcome to new followers and a huge rebonjour to those of you who’ve been subscribers to our free magazine for a while now – we’re delighted to bring you The Good Life France Magazine Summer 2022:

The Good Life France Magazine Summer 2022

This issue is a summer special for the south of France – captivating Corsica – AKA the ‘island of beauty, glitzy Cannes and gem of the French Riviera Antibes. We also visit the wild and unspoiled Camargue area where wild white horses and pink flamingos roam and arty Arles.

But we’ve not forgotten the north of France, discover Aisne, a department of castles and monuments in Picardy – the ancient cradle of France, and Azincourt which non-French call Agincourt and its museum dedicated to the famous battle.

And foodies will love our article about the prune route of France, artisan gin makers, green wines, and fabulous recipes  – who can resist easy cheesy tear and share baked bread and Camembert?!

There are guides, a roundup of what’s new in France, top events and tours and heaps more.

I’d like to thank you for your support of the magazine – we’ve had 2 million readers of the last issue. Please feel free to share it and sing its praises to everyone you know!

And now – it’s time to read it. Just click on the link and you’ll be whisked off to 120 pages of France, the next best thing to being there: The Good Life France Magazine Summer 2022 – totally FREE.

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The Good Life France Magazine Spring 2022 is brimming with fabulous features. It’s chock full of wonderful photos. It has the most delicious recipes, useful guides and inspirational articles…

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Here are just a few of the highlights:

Paris in the spring: Is there anything dreamier than the city of love in the spring? We don’t think so…

Hidden France: Jewel of the north: With its wonderful architecture, incredible wildlife and vibrant town centre, Saint-Omer is simply wonderful.

Le Weekend in Metz: Just 80 minutes from Paris by train, Moselle’s main city has something for everyone.

UNESCO listed Avignon: The sunny city in Provence is home to a treasure trove of historic buildings.

The famous Le Nôtre boulangerie in Paris shares scrumptious recipes: Croissant, Make France’s favourite pastry like a pro. Plus chocolate croissant, utterly, butterly scrumptious brioche pudding and French Almond cake

Lost Monuments of Paris: we uncover the stories behind some of Paris’ most beautiful lost buildings

UNESCO listed Avignon: The sunny city in Provence is home to a treasure trove of historic buildings.

And much, much more….

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Welcome to The Good Life France Magazine Issue no. 28…

It’s totally free to subscribe to, read online or download. Just access it via the link below:

Click here for: The Good Life France Magazine Issue no. 28

It’s stuffed full of fabulous features including absolutely beautiful Annecy known as the Venice of the French Alps and where the light is like nowhere else. Visit the the sunny southern Basque country and rather exotic Pau. Find out about the history of the Canal du Midi and how an artist in Provence traced the footsteps of Winston Churchill on the French Riviera where the great man loved to paint.

There’s a gorgeous photo essay of the four seasons of Provence that will make you sigh. Discover the beautiful Valley of Chevreuse – it’s hard to believe this bucolic area is on the edge of Paris. And there are practical guides for those dreaming of moving to France. Finally there are recipes galore with a focus on the scrumptious gastronomy of Touraine in the Loire Valley – from an ancient recipe for macarons invented by monks to moreish nougat cake which has nothing to do with nougat!

If you like this issue please do share it with your friends and let them know it’s free to subscribe to…

Best wishes from my little pigsty office in the middle of nowhere, rural northern France

Janine
Editor

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Bonjour from France

It’s been such a difficult year hasn’t it? So, I thought that it would be lovely if we can bring some smiles with a bit of festive fabulousness from France and I had an idea for a special Christmas issue of The Good Life France Magazine.

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 The Good Life France Magazine Christmas Issue

So I talked to some friends in the travel industry, style people, authors, top chefs and wine experts and they loved the idea. And they wanted to help make this issue super festive too. What began as a small project snowballed!

Recipes and decorations with French flair

Read on for a Michelin Star chef’s exclusive recipe for gingerbread and a heart-warming tale of the chef’s famous gingerbread making ancestor. Even my neighbour Madame Bernadette got involved! I wrote about her in my book My Four Seasons in France – how her Calvados based cocktails blow your socks off and her Christmas canapés induce her friends to sighs of happiness. Well, now you can make the cocktail too. And some of her favourite, very easy recipes that are perfect with aperitifs! And there are biscuit recipes, a gummy jelly recipe from a sweet toothed 2 Michelin star chef. Plus how to make the ultimate hot chocolate Paris style. And lots of food and drink features for your taste of France at home!

Plus there’s a fabulous “how-to” feature on creating a Christmas bouquet from the floral team at the Chateau de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley, known as the Castle of Flowers… And destination features on Bordeaux, Megève and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

12 brilliant giveaways

And enter all 12 of our giveaway draws. There’s a chance to win a brilliant week-long holiday in southwest France with a very special treat thrown in – wine tasting at a chateau anyone? Artwork, books, luxury bedding, gorgeous homeware, luxury gift boxes and much more. The giveaways in this issue are really, really wonderfully fabulous.

I know most of us can’t travel to France this holiday season, so we’ve concentrated very much on bringing France to you… And we’ll be sharing our popular advent calendar photos on social media so please join me there: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Bisous my little pig sty in the middle of nowhere, rural France.
Janine
Editor

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Welcome to The Good Life France Magazine issue no. 26, Autumn/Winter 2020.

It’s totally free to subscribe to, read online or download. Just access it via the link below:

The Good Life France Issue No. 26 

We’ve aimed to bring France to you in these difficult days when we can’t travel. There’s a focus on Provence – the hidden gems and prettiest villages, the French Alps playground of Les Gets, Puy du Fou which I promise you is no ordinary theme park and Rocamadour, the rock of miracles. I caught up with international best-selling author Kate Mosse (Labyrinth) and asked her about her favourite places in France and how they inspire her. There are guides and recipes and some fabulous giveaways, just enter the draw for some great prizes – you’ve got to be in it to win it!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed putting it together for you. In fact I enjoyed it so much that I decided to do one more magazine this year. And, it’s very special. A Christmas issue that’s going to be stuffed with style guides, French style Christmas decorations you can make at home and festive recipes including an exclusive and utterly delicious dessert created for us by a Michelin star chef. We’re also going to do some amazing giveaways including a holiday in southern France, art, luxury bedding and more. I figure this Christmas we’re going to need a bit of festive fun to cheer us all up.

If you like this issue please do share it with your friends and let them know it’s free to subscribe to…

Best wishes from my little pigsty office in the middle of nowhere, rural northern France

Janine
Editor

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Inside The Good Life France Magazine

This issue is stuffed full of fabulous features and wonderful photographs. While we can’t travel right now, we can still dream. And you can be whisked away to France through these pages.

Discover 20 brilliant day trips from Paris. While you’ll never run out of things to see, do and fall in love with in the city of light – sometimes it’s good to see what else there is. Picturesque villages, historic cities, cathedral cities, cultural towns and gorgeous chateaux. All easy to reach by train from Paris and close enough for you to visit in one day – and get back in time for dinner.

Explore gorgeous Gascony. If you thought real France was something that has long disappeared. Think again. You’ll find it in the Gers…

Take a road trip of Northern France to find castles, Champagne vineyard that aren’t in Champagne and the most wonderful seaside locations.

Lille, the capital of Hauts de France is a food and culture paradise and we pair the museums and art venues with restaurants…

Amiens in Picardy is quite simply extraordinary. It’s known as the Venice of the north thanks to its glorious watery arteries. The hortillonnages, as the floating gardens of Amiens are known, have been there for hundreds of years.

Take a very French cruise that’s part “Strictly Ballroom”, part “Dirty Dancing” and wholly fun and fabulous and an outstanding gastronomic experience.

Oppede, a hidden gem in Provence, a monumental Charterhouse, guides, recipes and a whole lot more –  bringing France to you at home.

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Welcome to the Autumn/Winter 2019 issue of the Good Life France Magazine

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Discover three cities that are perfect for a wine themed tour, Alsace (especially with a sprinkling of snow), Bordeaux and Burgundy are fabulous whatever the weather! If you’ve never been to Dinan – you’ll definitely want to go after you read our guide and then head to the pink granite coast with its magical rock formations and gorgeous beaches.

We check out some unusual visits in Paris from spooky manors to downright weird museums. If you like a fright with your fun – you’ll love these!

Deputy editor of TGLF, Lucy Pitts admits she’s not really that into skiing but found out there’s loads to do in the French Alps where you don’t have to be sliding down the slopes. If you’re looking for a great short break destination – historic Boulogne-sur-Mer on the Opal Coast will float your boat. Around the coast. UNESCO listed Le Havre couldn’t be more different but equally fascinating.

Find out what to do in Mulhouse, the arty Alsatian city is undergoing a metamorphosis and join travel writer Amy McPherson as she goes walkabout in the Dordogne Valley. Check out the best tours for 2020, learn how to make kugelhopf cake, see colourful Collioure in the south of France in photos… and lots more.

I hope you enjoy reading this issue, and if you do please share it with your friends – it’s free, and always will be.

With best wishes
Janine
Editor

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Welcome to the Good Life France Magazine Summer 2019 – totally free to read and utterly brilliant.

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This is a free magazine, written by professional travel writers with a brief to tell it like it is and to seek out the best things to do and the secrets of the places they visit. It’s free to read online, download a PDF and to share, so if you like it, please help me to grow my audience and share the magazine with your friends and family. A subscriber wrote “this is like going on holiday to France, without leaving home”… Hopefully you’ll feel the same way!

In this issue read about the best things to see and do in Dijon in Burgundy and it’s secret places like a bar in an ancient deconsecrated church, plus the restaurants the locals love.

Discover sensational Strasbourg and find out what to do and see and its secret speakeasy. Plus probably the oldest wine store in the world where they have a bottle of wine dating to 1472!

Find out about Versailles and its opulent chateau, gorgeous gardens and lovely town. Visit Cognac in Charente, and Le Touquet, once the jet setters paradise in the north of France plus the nearby lovely Montreuil-sur-Mer, a tiny hill top town that’s making a name for itself in foodie circles.

Ian Moore, stand up comedian and author tells us what its really like to run a chambre d’hotes. Lucy Pitts explores Ardeche, the wild side of Provence and Michael Cranmer goes fishing with his feet – a national obsession in France!

We pay homage to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame with photos and comments posted by our friends on Facebook; down but not beaten, the “soul of Paris” will be rebuilt.

There are useful guides, real life expat stories including Billy and Gwendoline Petherick, stars of Escape to the Chateau DIY; and a fabulous recipe for scrumptious crème brulée.

There’s no paywall to read it and that won’t change, it’s free and it always will be. You don’t have to subscribe, if the box pops up and you’re not sure you want to subscribe until you’ve read how good it it, just click the X…

With best wishes from France
Janine
Editor

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