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To Subscribe toTHE GOOD LIFE FRANCE MAGAZINEClick the button belowSUBSCRIBEThe magazine is free to read, download and shareContributors8CONTENTSThe Good Life France MagazineNo. 44 Winter 2025ISSN 2754-6799ON THE COVER8 Discover GrasseThe perfume capital ofFrance has oodles offragrant charm.16 Loire Chateaux atChristmasGilded grandeur andgarlands – if castles woreball gowns, this is what theywould look like.Gillian Thornton is anaward-winning travel writerspecialising in Frenchdestinations and lifestyle.Her favourite place? ‘Usuallywhere I have just been!’Freelance journalist KarenTait has been Editor of FrenchProperty News for over 20years and contributes to titlessuch as The Sunday Times.Sue Aran is a writer,photographer, and tour guideliving in the Gers departmentof southwest France. She isthe owner of French CountryAdventures, which providespersonally guided, smallgroup,slow travel tours intoGascony, the Pays Basque,Provence and beyond.Marion Jones is a Paris loverpodcaster (City Breaks) andfreelance writer specialisingin places where travel meetshistory.Ally Mitchell is a blogger andfreelance writer, specialising infood and recipes. Ally left theUK to live in Toulouse in 2021and now writes about her newlife in France on her food blogNigellaEatsEverything.Lucy Pitts is a freelance writerand editor of Sussex Exclusive,and has a home in the Vendée,western France.Dana Facaros has lived inFrance for over 30 years.She is several guidebooksand the creator of FrenchFood Decoder app:everything you want to knowabout French food.Annaliza Davis is an editor,translator, and writer. Shelives in Brittany after fallingin love with the area on aschool exchange and lovesto explore the coast with herscruffy dog Mimi!Jeremy Flint is an awardwinningphotographer(Association of PhotographersDiscovery Award Winner,National Geographic TravellerGrand Prize Winner, and fivetimes finalist Travel Photographerof the Year), and writerspecialising in travel, landscapeand location photography.LoveFrance?Subscribe to The GoodLife France weeklynewsletter for free andget fabulous features,guides, recipes andmore delivered direct toyour inbox.SUBSCRIBE163048 La RochelleExplore the historic maritimecity’s picturesque port, ancientstreets, museums, feast worthyrestaurants and more.DISCOVER24 Winter of the FrenchRivieraPerched villages where thecreative soul of the Côted’Azur shines.30 French festive CruiseHave yourself a merry littlecruise-mas. Discover theChristmas markets of Alsaceby boat!The Good Life France MagazineFront Cover: Cannes, Côte d’AzurPublished by: TGLF Media Ltd.Editor: Janine Marsh, editor@thegoodlifefrance.comAdvertising: sales@thegoodlifefrance.comEnquiries: Trudy Watkins, trudy@thegoodlifefrance.comLayout design: Philippa French littlefrogdesign.co.ukISSN 2754-6799 Issue 44 Winter 202536 Tarn – the French ‘Tuscany’Picturesque and pickled-inthe-pastmedieval villages ofthe Tarn, southern France.42 Winter in ProvenceThink winter in Provence issleepy? Not at all, it’s dreamy!54 The weird & wonderfulworld of French pastriesThe historic, and sometimespeculiar, confectionarychronicles of France.4 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 5