Online Magazine

For Channel Islanders & Others

Gites & More Magazine incorporates articles on France and related topics.  The Site and Magazine are aimed at new and regular visitors to France, Second Home owners, those thinking of relocating, Channel Islanders and others resident in France

 Articles include  - (each subject below is linked to article)

• Travel News

• A Flower and Icon Festival was held in July in Dinard - beautiful Flower Arrangements and the work of Jersey Iconographer Karen Blampied on display.  Click here

• Fete de Remparts 2010 in Dinan

• Cap Malo - Review of super shopping centre on the way to Rennes -part of  the New Brittany Shopping Page

• "La Vie en Rose" - Say it Carefully with Roses!

• The Vaux Hardy Alpacas Norman and Orla have renovated an old Breton farm and also breed Alpacas

• Travel News

  Useful Websites Reviews of useful websites. 

• "Nuit Noire sur Dinard" new crime thriller set in Dinard by Patrick Bent

  Monte Carlo Weddings  plan your French Wedding

• The Processional Pine Caterpillar, new immigrant to Northern France

• The Old Black Dog -French Pub with English influence.  Caroline Carver tells how popular English roasts, bacon and egg and fish and chips have become with locals

• Reiki Master and Crystal Healer Philippa Wood

• Elizabeth Jeffs offers beauty treatments at the Lotus Blossom Institute in Brittany  

• Moved or are moving to France.  Here is the help you need.

• Experiencing problems with Sending emails when in France

• The Alliance Française in Jersey

• Focus on Gers in the Midi Pyrénées

• Dinan it History and Attractions

• Parick Bent Author - detective novels set in Brittany coastal towns such as  St. Malo, St. Cast and Erquy

• Breton Cheddar?! Cheddar Cheese made in Brittany, France,  by Erica Hicks

• HD Ferries service commences between the Channel Islands and St . Malo

• A Gardening holiday at the mystical Chateau Bellenau in Normandy

• English Tree Surgeon in Brittany

• Station Kid Award Resorts

• Cruising Holidays in France with Crown Blue Lnes

• La Route de la Baie - read about the towns and attractions

• on the road around the Bay of Mont Saint Michel  from Cancale to Granville

• Pierres Sonnantes at Notre Dame de Guildo

• Rochefort-en-Terre

• Emeraude Ferries gone from Jersey - The End of an Era

• Visit Fourgères

• Find Tradesmen (Artisans) with ease

• Jèrriais - the language of Jersey

• Fish and Chips in Dinan!

• Robert Donavan - an English Artist who sells his paintings at Brittany markets

• "Ordinary Hats off" to Chapi Chapo

• - Individually designed hats by Isobelle Tocqet of Champs Geraux close to Dinan

• Weddings in France

• Brittany is about to be invaded by the most eccentric of  English authors.  George East author of a series of seven books about his and wife Donella's life as an "innocent abroad" in Lower Normandy is about to embark on a new series of books  - "East at Large", To enjoy George's wit and perception of  France plus find about the visit to Brittany click here.

• Life in the Charente Maritime for the Carter Family - The Carter Family took the courageous step of re-locating to the beautiful Poitou-Charente  region of France from Jersey.  Julie Carter tells her story.

• Welcome to I Travel - the French Travel Experts

• La Fete de la Musique - Music Day in France

• From La Motte Street to Lurcy Levis in the Auvergne Region - Tracy Richardson recounts her life style change from banking to self sufficiency in one of France's most rural regions.

• Lancieux Vide Greniers

• Well who was the Translator?

• Speedferries - line between Dover and Boulogne

• Powerful Pastels - Susan Jones' exhibition

• See our latest page - Services and Trades people in Brittany

• St Malo's Men and Women Corsairs

• French Discothèques - are they different - yes they are . .

• Travelling from Jersey to France in the 1960's.

• Impressions of Giverny     - The House  created by Monet in Normandy

• Taden Night Market

• Galerie de l'Occasion Depot Vente

• Time for Tea -ARTHÉ - the Art of Tea