These artisanal candied chestnuts from Provence available in my local supermarket work out at €1.52 each. There are 10 in a box. Definitely ...

When he was planning our holiday to the south of France earlier this year Simon asked me if I wanted to see the famous lavender fields in Pr...

We had to go to Chambray-les-Tours a couple of weeks ago for an appointment at the Pôle Santé Léonard de Vinci. When I checked on OrganicMap...

  A poem by John Clare, with his usual very observant commentary on nature at work. A remarkable man. The holly bush, a sober lump of green...

iNaturalist, where I upload my biodiversity records, provides a handy end of year analysis of where one has been and what one saw, so here i...

A while ago Fabrice Doucet posted a photo of a mystery object on Facebook. He told everyone it was at the lavoir (former public laundry on t...

I wrote last week about the free app "Organic Maps"  and said there would be a follow-up. This is it. Once you've downloaded t...

Top of my list to see when we stayed in Arles in June this year was to see flamingoes in the Camargue.  The Camargue is France's largest...

I like cooking, but the past couple of years I've often avoided the day to day French recipes in favour of Asian food. I think it's ...

For the past eight years I have been using navigation and mapping based on Open Street Maps (OSM) rather than the better kn...