A corner of France

Not far from Epernay is a small forest featuring Beech trees with a genetic mutation that causes them to grow in short, twisted shapes.  You...

In Epernay, the Champagne houses are mostly located on Champagne street; Avenue de Champagne . It's where the tourist office is too, (wi...

In the little town of Hautvillers, we saw two things of note, one of which struck us as typically French, the other as counter to almost eve...

The little village of Hautvillers can be said to be a place of pilgrimage: it is the town where Dom Perignon lived much of his life and was ...

A few things struck us about the Champagne vine-growing area around Epernay.  Firstly, there are vines everywhere: vistas where there is not...

I hold the opinion that the French are, generally, not much good at marketing, an opinion I have formed from many observations over the year...

This is just one of many irritations relating to the fact that I recently sold a lump of hi-fi on ebay.  This item was at one time held to b...