Editorial Policy

The standard we hold ourselves to

Publishing about Slow travel, small inns and regional food in France without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.

Paid and unpaid links

We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.

Nobody has ever bought the removal of a fair criticism here, and the ones who try mostly hand us the material for the next article.

Dating and updates

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

Who signs the work

You can always see who wrote a page and what else they have put their name to. That traceability is deliberate, and it is why nothing here goes out unsigned.

Léonie Garnier, Editor. Léonie grew up above her aunt's auberge in the Jura and writes about the small places that make a trip worth remembering.

Mathis Leclerc, Games and culture writer. Mathis plays every game with a tavern or an inn in it and writes about how virtual travel borrows from the real thing.

Solène Aubry, Food and regions writer. Solène drives the back roads of Burgundy and Brittany each season, notebook in hand, looking for the next good village table.

From notes to published page

• Dump first. Everything the writer believes goes down, unsorted.
• Mark the soft parts. Anything held on memory rather than evidence gets flagged.
• Check or cut. A flagged claim is either supported or removed. There is no third option.
• Second reader. Somebody else hunts for sentences that sound more certain than the evidence allows.

What we will not publish

• Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
• Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
• Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

Picking subjects

What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.

Putting things right

Corrections go to [email protected]. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.