Sail with New Freebooters

My goal is for NewFreebooters to be free to go wherever I feel like wandering. I’ll use content from my old sites France for Freebooters and Don’t Stop the World – I’m enjoying the ride , but I’ll also explore new places and new subjects. Since we are now in the world of Web 2.0, [...]

Buche de Noël is the French name for a Yule Log. Here’s a labour-intensive recipe that might lift your next Swiss Roll baking session onto a different plane. Serves 6, unless they’re teenagers. In that case, it will never reach the cooking stage. I’ve given approximate US measures in brackets at the end of each [...]

Let me tell a little history about the Canal du Midi, and suggest an unusual walk. Construction of the Canal du Midi started one year before the Great Fire of London. That’s less than eighty years after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. No wonder the Journal des Savants of 7th June 1688 said it [...]

A long time ago, I created France For Freebooters as a hobby site with the mission to ‘show you things you’d never find’ in France. It was intended for the independent traveller in France, and made use of input from a number of travel writer friends as well as my own stuff (written while I [...]