The Good Life France Magazine




The Good Life France Magazine brings you the best of France - inspirational and exclusive features, fabulous photos, mouth-watering recipes, tips, guides, ideas and much more...


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Winter 2025

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Brimming with beautiful photos, fantastic features, plus inspiring, entertaining and informative guides, & delicious recipes from top chefs. Discover the French Riviera, Grasse the perfume capital of France, & Provence. Visit the enchanting Chateaux of the Loire at Christmas & hop aboard a festive winter cruise of Alsace where villages look like they're plucked from a snow globe. Explore the vibrant charms of Lille, La Rochelle, Limousin, Paris & Marseille. Discover the history & culture of France, secret villages... and more, much more.

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To Subscribe to THE GOOD LIFE FRANCE MAGAZINE Click the button below SUBSCRIBE The magazine is free to read, download and share Contributors 8 CONTENTS The Good Life France Magazine No. 44 Winter 2025 ISSN 2754-6799 ON THE COVER 8 Discover Grasse The perfume capital of France has oodles of fragrant charm. 16 Loire Chateaux at Christmas Gilded grandeur and garlands - if castles wore ball gowns, this is what they would look like. Gillian Thornton is an award-winning travel writer specialising in French destinations and lifestyle. Her favourite place? ‘Usually where I have just been!’ Freelance journalist Karen Tait has been Editor of French Property News for over 20 years and contributes to titles such as The Sunday Times. Sue Aran is a writer, photographer, and tour guide living in the Gers department of southwest France. She is the owner of French Country Adventures, which provides personally guided, smallgroup, slow travel tours into Gascony, the Pays Basque, Provence and beyond. Marion Jones is a Paris lover podcaster (City Breaks) and freelance writer specialising in places where travel meets history. Ally Mitchell is a blogger and freelance writer, specialising in food and recipes. Ally left the UK to live in Toulouse in 2021 and now writes about her new life in France on her food blog NigellaEatsEverything. Lucy Pitts is a freelance writer and editor of Sussex Exclusive, and has a home in the Vendée, western France. Dana Facaros has lived in France for over 30 years. She is several guidebooks and the creator of French Food Decoder app: everything you want to know about French food. Annaliza Davis is an editor, translator, and writer. She lives in Brittany after falling in love with the area on a school exchange and loves to explore the coast with her scruffy dog Mimi! Jeremy Flint is an awardwinning photographer (Association of Photographers Discovery Award Winner, National Geographic Traveller Grand Prize Winner, and five times finalist Travel Photographer of the Year), and writer specialising in travel, landscape and location photography. Love France? Subscribe to The Good Life France weekly newsletter for free and get fabulous features, guides, recipes and more delivered direct to your inbox. SUBSCRIBE 16 30 48 La Rochelle Explore the historic maritime city’s picturesque port, ancient streets, museums, feast worthy restaurants and more. DISCOVER 24 Winter of the French Riviera Perched villages where the creative soul of the Côte d’Azur shines. 30 French festive Cruise Have yourself a merry little cruise-mas. Discover the Christmas markets of Alsace by boat! The Good Life France Magazine Front Cover: Cannes, Côte d’Azur Published by: TGLF Media Ltd. Editor: Janine Marsh, editor@thegoodlifefrance.com Advertising: sales@thegoodlifefrance.com Enquiries: Trudy Watkins, trudy@thegoodlifefrance.com Layout design: Philippa French littlefrogdesign.co.uk ISSN 2754-6799 Issue 44 Winter 2025 36 Tarn - the French ‘Tuscany’ Picturesque and pickled-inthe-past medieval villages of the Tarn, southern France. 42 Winter in Provence Think winter in Provence is sleepy? Not at all, it’s dreamy! 54 The weird & wonderful world of French pastries The historic, and sometimes peculiar, confectionary chronicles of France. 4 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 5

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