France has long been one of my favourite holiday destinations - there’s little better than a weekend in Paris, a summer holiday relaxing in the Provencal countryside, a wine tour in Burgundy or ...

The visit to Corsica’s capital Ajaccio ... protected the island from the plague in 1656 when it was still under Genoa. Corsica stands out from the rest of secularized France as a particularly ...

Corsica, the Med’s fourth biggest island, is only just a little smaller than the third, Cyprus – which, you have probably observed, is a country proper. They share more than their strange case ...