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Overview
Why Visit France?
France is the world most visited country for a reason -- it does almost everything at an exceptionally high level. The food culture runs from three-Michelin-star restaurants in Lyon to the precision of a boulangerie croissant at 7am.
French culture is built on a fierce pride in the French way of doing things. Lunch is still two hours in much of France. The village market is still the social centre of rural life. The cafe is still an institution.
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Food and Drink
What to Eat in France
French food culture is one of the foundational cuisines of the world. The France most worth eating in is the France of the weekly market, the village charcuterie, the cave cooperative where you taste wine poured from the barrel.
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Croissant
The great French breakfast pastry -- laminated butter dough, rolled and folded to create hundreds of airy layers. A great croissant from a great boulangerie is one of the simplest and finest things in French food.
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Cheese
France produces over 1,200 varieties of cheese -- from the washed-rind Epoisses to the blue-veined Roquefort. The correct serving temperature is room temperature.
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Bouillabaisse
The great fisherman stew of Marseille -- multiple varieties of fish in a saffron-and-tomato broth, served with rouille and croutons. The genuine article can only be found in Marseille.
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Coq au Vin
Chicken braised slowly in red Burgundy wine with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions -- one of the great French peasant dishes. The definitive version uses a real village chicken.
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Wine
Burgundy Pinot Noir. Bordeaux Cabernet. Champagne. Rhone Grenache. Loire Chenin Blanc. France produces more of the world reference wines than any other country.
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Highlights of France
Paris
The Louvre, the Musee d Orsay, the Marais, the Canal Saint-Martin, Montmartre at dawn, the Seine at golden hour -- Paris is one of the great cities of human civilisation.
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Burgundy Wine Region
The Cote d Or produces the world most complex Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a strip of land 50km long. The Route des Grands Crus is one of the great wine road journeys.
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Provence
The lavender fields of the Luberon, the morning market in Apt, the Pont du Gard at dusk -- Provence in June and July is one of the most visually extraordinary landscapes in Europe.
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Loire Valley
Renaissance chateaux rising above vineyards and market gardens. Chambord, Chenonceau, Villandry -- each a statement of 16th-century French ambition. UNESCO-listed.
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Insider Tips
Travel Tips for France
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Learn a few words of French -- the effort is disproportionately rewarded. Even a poor Bonjour changes the temperature.
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Most Paris museums are free on the first Sunday of each month -- book timed entry online regardless.
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The weekly market (marche) is the best way to understand a French town -- arrive early, bring cash.
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Lunch menus at restaurants are almost always better value than evening a la carte.
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