Château d’Abbadia: An Irish Castle on the Basque Coast
It looks as though an Irish Gothic Revival castle has been dropped on a French clifftop. Am I in the French Basque country or looking at Kylemore Abbey on the Connemara coast?
The Best French Pâtisseries: A Tasting Guide
French bakeries are dangerous places. You pop in for a simple baguette and leave with a ribbon-tied box of pure temptation. Here are my seven current favourite pâtisseries in France – plus my foolproof strategy for staying (mostly) in control. Warning: photos may cause hunger pangs.
Have They Really Found D’Artagnan’s Remains in a Dutch Church?
Real life just handed my novel an incredible plot twist. A skeleton discovered beneath a church floor in Maastricht may belong to the real 17th century musketeer who inspired Dumas’ hero.