I recently went on a photography holiday in the beautiful Corbières mountain range in southern France, close to Perpignan. The course was great – fine food, lovely accommodation and a great, helpful host and teacher in Andrew Whittuck, aka Photo Holidays France – so too the landscape, all rugged gorse-covered hills, needle-straight Roman avenues and [...]
The thought of a motorway jaunt to the south of France last week brought me out in a cold sweat as all kinds of potentially stressful situations raced through my mind
Earlier this year I spent five months working in a tourist office in the South of France. Before starting I really wasn’t sure quite what to expect, and was by no means ready for the stream of strange and curious questions which would end up coming my way. Nothing had suggested that the tourist office would turn out to be a general information office or that the majority of ‘tourists’ would, in fact, be local residents.