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Top Tips on How to Find the Best Antiques in France – Podcast

How much do you know about finding antiques in France? In this episode Annette explains how to find the best antiques whether you're a seasoned traveller to France, or whether you're planning your very first visit to l'Hexagone and want to bring home some stylish treasures.

Once you know how to locate brocante and antique stores, find when markets are on and feel comfortable approaching stall or store owners, you'll be set to start adventuring and finding beautiful linens, grand furniture, unique wall-hangings or quirky ornaments to call your own!

Join Annette Charlton, the Australian-French writer and creator of A French Collection website, as she shares her knowledge of collecting and decorating with French antiques in this podcast.

Podcast show notes and all photos https://www.afrenchcollection.com/french-antiques-and-vintage-france

AFTER A WONDERFUL FEW YEARS OF CREATING PODCASTS, WE HAVE NOW DISCONTINUED OUR PODCAST SHOW.

You can still read the podcast show notes on the link above.

Annette Charlton

Annette lives with her family between their homes in France and Australia. She’s been featured in International magazines including French Property News, on numerous blogs and travel websites and appeared on ABC National Radio. You can connect on Instagram or Facebook.

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Saint Malo & All the Light We Cannot See – Podcast

Called the jewel of Brittany, Saint Malo is stunning with its city walls, half-timbered houses, beaches and a history of pirates, treasure and its massive destruction in WWII.
Saint Malo is also the setting for the best selling novel 'All The Light We Cannot See' which has now been made into a movie. Find out more about this stunning city and the book that has captured the world by storm.

Read podcast show notes and see all photos
https://www.afrenchcollection.com/saint-malo-and-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-book-review

AFTER A WONDERFUL FEW YEARS OF CREATING PODCASTS, WE HAVE NOW DISCONTINUED OUR PODCAST SHOW.

You can still read the podcast show notes on the link above.

Annette Charlton

www.afrenchcollection.com

To Capture What We Cannot Keep: Book Review

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin’s book To Capture What We Cannot Keep is described as Captivating and bold, a haunting love story of 1880's Paris and I found it a delightful and easy read interweaving Haussmann's new Paris, the Eiffel tower, 1889 World Fair and the Panama Canal.

It’s February 1887 and young Scottish widow, Caitriona Wallace (Cait), is acting as chaperone to two wealthy Scottish charges, Alice and James, when by perchance she meets Émile Nouguier in a hot air balloon in Paris. Émile is the chief engineer working on the Eiffel Tower and part of the bourgeois social class so any future that Cait and Émile aspire to, is constrained within the social strata of their time.

Saint Malo and All The Light We Cannot See: Book Review

All The Light We Cannot See is set in Saint Malo, Brittany

Imagine being a blind sixteen year old girl living alone with your reclusive aged great-uncle in a narrow derelict and silent house in Saint Malo during the German occupation of the greater Saint Malo area and then the final assault and eventual liberation by the British and Allied Forces. This is the situation Marie-Laure the brave Parisian teenager finds herself in the fictional work of All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

Annette Charlton

www.afrenchcollection.com

10 Tips for a Stress Free Brittany Ferries Trip

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10 Tips for a Stress Free Brittany Ferries Trip

Our 10 Tips for Brittany Ferries Crossings will have you enjoying your ferry trip between France and England like a seasoned traveller. We have now crossed the English Channel more than 30 times and have learnt a lot along the way. Keep reading for our tips on how to have a great journey, and enjoy the views, the shopping and the fabulous food while on board your Brittany Ferries Ship.

Annette Charlton