Inns and Stays
French Hotel Star Ratings and What They Mean at Small Inns
You find a stone inn in a Burgundy village with glowing reviews, open the listing, and see two stars.
You sit down in a Breton creperie, the menu lists thirty galettes with names like "complete" and "forestiere", and you cannot tell if you are ordering a pancake, a lunch or a dessert.
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You find a stone inn in a Burgundy village with glowing reviews, open the listing, and see two stars.
France Regions
Most people meet the Ardeche from a canoe in August, squeezed between hundreds of other canoes, and leave thinking it is a...
Travel Tips
The small inns worth staying at are rarely next to a station, and the bus to the next village may run twice a day, or only on...
Road Trips
The Alsace wine route looks short on a map, and that is exactly why so many visitors rush it.
Regional Food
Half the restaurants on the Vieux-Port chalk the word bouillabaisse on a board outside, and most of them are serving a fish...
Inns and Stays
You check in at a small hotel in the Dordogne, the owner asks if you will take breakfast tomorrow, and the price on the little...
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