Every New Year’s Eve at midnight, the glitter ball drops in New York’s Times Square and fireworks explode over the Thames in London and the Sydney Opera House. But in Paris – nothing.
That will change this year, when the French party poopers will at last join the global midnight countdown. Continue reading…
Hundreds of British holidaymakers have finally reached the ski slopes or returned home after a weekend during which they were trapped in the French Alps by a snowstorm and icy roads that snarled traffic across the region. Continue reading…
Few French people downing their festive serving of oysters would expect to find a pearl inside the shell. But one market stallholder was confronted with not one but two. Continue reading…
Former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is able to recognise his wife and two children, a year after he sustained severe head injuries in a skiing accident, a friend has said. Continue reading…
Freak snowfalls and ice stranded more than 15,000 vehicles on Sunday in the French Alps, where two people died in the extreme weather and crowds of skiers, including many British holidaymakers, bedded down at Chambéry airport. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 