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Contributor to The Guardian · The Times · National Geographic Traveller · BBC Travel · France Magazine (Editor 2006-2016)

Subject: Destinations

Oysters

Finistère

Beyond the crêpe: the real food of Brittany’s wild western tip

Oysters from Belon, langoustines from the bay, butter from Bordier. Finistère is one of France's great food destinations — and almost nobody treats it as one.

Cantal

The volcanic heart of France that nobody visits

Europe's largest extinct volcano, extraordinary cheese, and not a tourist in sight. Why Cantal deserves to be on every itinerary.
Paris skyline

Paris

My favourite places to go in Paris

Paris is endlessly written about and endlessly surprising. After twenty years of visiting — for work, for pleasure, for the cheese shops on the Île Saint-Louis and the bistros nobody puts in guidebooks — these are the places I keep going back to. The ones that have never let me down.