-
Retirees need at least €15,000 a year to live with dignity in France, finds report
This amount does not include the cost of accommodation or bills, and focuses only on commonly-used goods and services
-
Are you due a free Christmas parcel from your mairie in France?
Mairies distribute festive parcels containing food and other goodies
-
Row continues over €1.39 bottles of French wine in Lidl supermarkets
French winemakers and farmers angry about bottles of wine being sold for less than the cost to produce them
Mushroom bonanza for warm wet spring
Rain and warm weather have meant a bonus for mushroom hunters with normal edible autumn fungi such as cèpes or Amanite des Césars being found in June.
In Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette, Loire, a football-sized vesse-de-loup puffball was found that weighed 2kg!