It’s always fun to plan a vacation around local festivals. Check out Paris Insider’s Guide‘s events calendar for Paris goings-on this summer.
And if you are looking to hit up some festivals outside the capital city, here are some useful resources:
Which are your favorite festivals in France? My favorite so far is the Semaine du Golfe, a festival of boats in the Morbihan. And I always love the wine fairs….
This fall, I had the great fortune of being invited to join one of Lynne Staartjes’s Sweet Tooth Tours. Along with one other visitor, I spent about three hours of my Tuesday morning on the Paris Sugar & Spice Picnic Tour in the 16th arrondissement.
Having finished all the mainland segments of Brittany's coastal trail (the GR34) and many of the islands, I'm now at 1,461 miles logged since November 2014. Here are all my GR34 photos to date. Bay of Quiberon I plan to finish the last few remaining pieces of this...
At the end of May, I was in Brittany for the biennial week-long festival, the Semaine du Golfe. This "Week of the Gulf" is a celebration of the boating history of the Gulf of Morbihan. There is no racing, but numerous other boat-related festivities, including a...