Beaucaire – Good Things Come in Threes
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Beaucaire – Good Things Come in Threes

ByMichael

There are two reasons to travel to the town of Beaucaire. Firstly, there is the experience of walking across a border: not a national but a cultural border, one that has divided France into tribes of different customs and habits for centuries. Up to a point, it still does so today. Take the train to…

Rocamadour – Top of the Pops for One Thousand Years
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Rocamadour – Top of the Pops for One Thousand Years

ByMichael

Rocamadour in the Dordogne valley east of Bordeaux is one of France’s top visitor attractions, but unlike most of the other entries in tourism’s Top Of The Pops, it has been a hit for centuries. Had visitor numbers been measured in the Middle Ages, Rocamadour would have topped such a statistic year after year, centuries…