Long autoroute trip? Then stop off for a rummage in a brocante (a French flea market), says Tom Kevill-Davies, who has furnished his house from them Among my childhood memories of summer holidays in ...

De jolis mugs, quelques vinyles, un chevalet, des contes pour enfants, une ceinture vintage… Dans les brocantes et les vide-greniers, on repart rarement les mains vides quand on sait ouvrir l’œil.

Every year, more than ten million Britons holiday in France – lured by the wine, weather and laid-back pace of life. But what most of us don’t realise is that, just a few steps from the boulangeries ...