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14 days ago

A moment that changed me: I thought I’d never fit in in rural France – until a revelation at the boulangerie

I’d spent 10 years trying to be more like my goat-farming neighbours. What if I stressed my ‘Britishness’ instead?

I was standing in the long queue of a rural French boulangerie when it happened. The …

43 days ago

How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard

One day, life as a finance consultant stopped making sense for Peter Hahn, so he took to organic winegrowing in the Loire instead

One Friday night 24 years ago, Peter Hahn was sitting in the back of a…

54 days ago

How I escaped the rat race, bought a corner of paradise in France and found love... by learning to make wine the VERY old fashioned way

Peter Hahn rises with the sun, bakes his own bread, works all day on his 25-acre vineyard in the Loire - mostly bent double with a pair of secateurs in his hands - and never, ever, takes a holiday.

4 months ago

Chariot racing, gladiator shows and medieval sword fights! Plans for 400 acre history-themed resort near Oxford is set to be given the green light

Puy du Fou - a historical attraction in Pays de la Loire, western France - is planning to create a British outpost in Cherwell, less than 20 miles north of Oxford.

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