The French tradition of voter discretion and voting divides across the country make it difficult to predict the outcome of the election.
Featured in A.E Housman’s collection of poems A Shropshire Lad, “On the Idle Hill of Summer” describes the onset of conflict in the English countryside.
Despite being one of his most famous works, this painting has little of the irregular picturesqueness that Hobbemas is known for.
In this week’s letter, Walter reflects on the strangest things about living in rural France, surrounded by farms.
In this week’s letter, rural Brittany is treated to its bi-annual visit from the le fauchageur, a reaper mowing the country verges.
In this week’s letter, Walter Ellis pens an ode to life in his French hamlet and the friendships he has made over the years.
There’s nothing more British than an escape to the country, so why is it a luxury only for the rich?
Cornwall used to receive the highest per capita levels of EU support in England – have the Cornish been abandoned post-Brexit?
The cacophony threatens the idyllic calm of the British countryside.
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