High plateau

From food markets to monasteries, this area brims with special sights

The Pyrenees reserves its best treasures for walkers prepared to venture off the well-beaten trail, says Teresa Levonian Cole, on a solo holiday in Ribes de Freser

It’s hard to imagine a better place to start a ride. At 1,326m Briançon is the highest city in France. And with 300 clear days a year on average, it’s also one of the sunniest. To describe the morning

Get back to nature in this scenic and historic corner of the Auvergne region, where the Dukes of Bourbon left their mark, writes Karen Tait

After visiting Normandy in May, we decided to head to Alsace in eastern France in September. The Vosges Mountains looked the ideal place for some autumn walks with over 12,000 miles of waymarked route

One of TGO ’s favourite maverick adventurers, John Fleetwood , is back, this time with a fulsome coast-to-coast extension of the renowned GR20 that embraces the best of Mediterranean village life, swimming, scrambling and the odd scrape away from the hot spots