Life lessons

With a plan to create sociable holidays in France grounded in gastronomy, Sam and Heather Lusardi were determined to do everything to make the project work, they tell Alison Hughes

We’ve been travelling in campervans for more than 30 years, so if you’ve ever flirted with the idea of taking off and hitting the road let us assure you: there’s no better way to travel. This time, we

It’s 20-something degrees and my lungs are burning. “Don’t look up to see how far you’ve still to go; take it one step at a time,” I tell myself, approaching two-thirds of the way up Puy Mary. It’s wh

In the Catalan Pyrenees, everything is bigger. This larger-than-life landscape, 200km north of the soft sands of the Mediterranean coast, is where Catalonia’s colossal peaks mark the region’s borders

September in France is all about La Rentrée – the return to school. It’s not just for children though, there are plenty of training opportunities for adults too, as Gillian Harvey finds out

FOR the decades she spent in London, Jacquetta Megarry was surrounded by the sights and sounds of the busy urban metropolis. She admits she’d never been particularly sporty or active, and she loved mo