Monet, Renoir and Degas delight at the National Gallery of Art, but works by their lesser-known contemporaries paint a fuller picture of the birth of Impressionism.
An absolute favourite is Tum Tang, spicy cucumber salad dish that is packed full of flavour with salted crab, fermented fish sauce and a hard-boiled egg ... The rum-roasted pineapple and Thai basil ...
For two weeks every August, the port town of Lorient comes alive with Breton dancing ... crispy white-sauce pizza), gingerbread and choucroute. The French Travel has the two-night Alsace Getaway ...