Fred Mawer has written about travel for The Daily Telegraph for many years, covering consumer issues, destinations and as hotel expert. He is Telegraph Travel’s expert for Bath, where he has lived for ...

One summer in the early 1950s, when Christian Liaigre first set foot on Île de Ré for a family holiday, he encountered a place for “peasants and fishermen, not tourists,” he says. The windswept ...

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Off the windswept western coast of France, around two and a half hours by car north of Bordeaux, the Île de Ré is often invoked as Europe’s answer to Martha’s Vineyard: outdoorsy, a little la-di-dah, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oyster farmers are a shy breed, says 33-year-old “Pierre”, in part-explanation for not wanting his real name to ...

A stay on Ile de Ré allows travellers to embrace slow travel. Check into the harbourside L’Hôtel de Toiras to immerse yourself in the region’s timeless traditions and quintessential French appeal.

When it comes to love of vending machines, if there's one country that rivals Japan—where you can get everything from manga comics to a bouquet of flowers with the press of a button—it's France. There ...

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There’s something oddly egalitarian about the French island of Ile de Ré. It’s Unesco-protected, attracts wealthy Parisians and British holidaymakers, and St Martin, the capital, has restaurants and ...

"What is exciting and quite unique is to find various objects from as far as Ireland, England, the Netherlands and Germany buried with the corpses in this part of western France, in the late 8th ...