5 d. ago Down by the river: a meditation on mental health – in pictures

During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again Continue reading...

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7 d. ago German politician invites the entire country to 'educational' nudist swinger holiday and 'training camp with outdoor sex'

Julien Ferrat, city councilor of Mannheim, has invited his entire country to join him on a nudist swinger holiday in southern France in his efforts to promote 'niche tourism'.

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2 w. ago From DJing and folk to songwriting and salsa: 10 of the best music and singing holidays

Combine beautiful locations with musical creativity on these perfectly pitched learning breaks from Somerset to MarrakechThe Kora Workshop is a small UK company that makes beautiful, high quality koras (a type of West African harp) and teaches people how to play them. UK festivalgoers may have bumped into its staff at Womad or Tribal Earth, but it also offers week-long immersion workshops in the Aveyron in southern France. They include seven days of tuition (both individual and group sessions), as well as shared accommodation and the loan of a kora. The first week got booked up quickly, so move fast if you’re interested. 14-21 Sept, £510, thekoraworkshop.co.uk Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Banksy posts image of new lighthouse artwork believed to be in Marseille

Image on street incorporates shadow of a bollard alongside words ‘I want to be what you saw in me’Europe live – latest updatesBanksy has posted an image of a new artwork believed to be in southern France, though its exact location has not been confirmed.The characteristic image, posted on the artist’s Instagram account, morphs the shadow of a street bollard into the form of lighthouse. Stencilled across it are the words: “I want to be what you saw in me.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Exhausted Saints fall short again as Bordeaux’s colour and passion wins out | Michael Aylwin

French club offer a blueprint for how to thrive in the modern game and it was all too apparent on and off the field in CardiffA new name is on the cup. They reckon Union Bordeaux Bègles are the best-supported rugby union club in the world. To be in Cardiff was not to be disabused of the notion. Rugby is massive in France, on a par with football, and bigger in the southern half of the country. It creates a different kind of animal.Northampton were proud, brave, inventive – but in the end overpowered. The narrative was wild and, Saints might say, liable to have gone either way. A raucous stadium – for Northampton are one of the best supported in England – was treated to crazy fluctuations in fortune, tries scored and overturned, penalties, knock-ons and high tackles subject to review after review. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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3 w. ago What is going on with the floods in southern France? Everything we know

Three people have been killed as severe weather swept through southeastern regions of France

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3 w. ago ‘There is nothing left’: Seaside town destroyed by violent storm as flooding kills three in southern France

Three pensioners died after becoming swept away by floodwater while in their cars

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3 w. ago ‘There is nothing left’: Seaside town devastated by violent storm as flooding kills three in southern France

Three pensioners died after becoming swept away by floodwater while in their cars

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3 w. ago Three dead and two missing as violent storms spark flooding in southern France

The floods were compared to ‘scenes of war’ by one regional mayor

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3 w. ago At least three dead as 'truly violent' rainstorms and floods ravage the French Riviera in 'natural disaster'

The floods reportedly caused cars to be swept away by waters, roads and bridged destroyed which one official described as 'scenes of war' in southern France .

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