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France - Côte d'Opale

With our hemisphere spinning inexorably into winter, it was time to 'fill the boots'. Having overspent the month already, a cheap local destination seemed prudent, with a chance to test a friends theory that often what is searched for far away can be found in the local. Thus the much unpublicised two-day coastal flanner from Calais to Bologne seemed ideal.

France - Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany

Our cycling trip began with an overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo, and after this sleepy start, we began in earnest - cycling off the ferry onto French soil where we'd spend the following week pedalling past the beautiful coastline, canals and villages of north-east Britanny.

France - Le Touquet Paris-Plage

Last summer six cousins and I squeezed into a large estate car with all our camping gear and spent a few days pottering down the coast of northern France. We stayed at the many well-appointed campsites along the way. We spent the mornings devouring large numbers of patisserie, the days on the beach and the evenings cooking moules marinière over the campfire...

France - Slowly up the Midi

“It’s just a floating caravan!” That was my wife’s first unhappy reaction to the sight of Beauregard, the French canal boat that we were about to spend the next seven days living on. In our family the holiday from hell has always been to endure the discomforts of camping or caravanning – why do people voluntarily make do with less than the comforts of home? So I could tell as we were shown around the compact layout of Beauregard by the local boat technician that my wife’s sunny vision of the next seven days was rapidly clouding over.

France - Toulouse to the Pyrénées

I gathered my seven words of French, my French dictionary, my maps and guidebooks - like every good journey this one started at the shelves of Stanfords - and set off for the forgotten southern corner of France.

Insight into the world of IGN

IGN is France's national survey agency, the equivalent of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey. As the Ordnance Survey was, and as many national Géographical institutes still are, it was originally a department of the army. It became a public institution just before the Armistice of Vichy in 1941.

Michelin: the maps they are a-changing

New maps are always awaited with great anticipation at Stanfords; many become a valuable addition to our stock, and those which fill the few remaining gaps in our coverage are particularly welcomed...

Moving to France

In 2001, Justin Saunders decided that adding a couple of extra miles on the commute for a better life would be worth the effort... although this commute was to be from France. Here he describes the experience of buying and living in France and whether it has met his expectations.

Stanfords supports coast-to-coast trek

An intrepid businessman trekked from coast to coast of France to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Mike Heyes, a senior consultant from Cheshire, set off on 11 July from Hendaye, a small French...

Top 10 strange place names around the world

There are some unusual, attractive and just plain funny names of countries, islands, towns and even glaciers all round the world. Here are our favourites…

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