Fields and fields of lavender welcomed us as we drove through Provence in the south of France. We smelled wild thyme and lavender in the air and heard the symphony of cicadas perched on red-tile roofs ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Men are we,” wrote Wordsworth about Venice, “and must grieve, when even the Shade/ Of that which once was great is ...
Avignon is a city that proudly wears its scars. TRAVELBOOK author Frank Lehmann visited and reveals why the rugged sister of Aix-en-Provence tells the better stories. Southern France is a wonderful ...
AVIGNON, France – The aged sycamore trees that greeted me when I flung open the French doors to the balcony of my hotel room were as majestic as I remembered from my last trip to this historic city in ...
Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...
According to the popular French nursery rhyme, there should be people dancing on Avignon bridge. Yet all I can see are tourists wandering towards the point where it dramatically ends in the middle of ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...