As the French prepare to vote on Monday, Mary Dejevsky says the outcome is far from certain

Twenty-seven kilometres up and over the Pyrenees is one of the bigger days on the 775km trail.

Paul Harper wraps up the key events, issues and opinions ahead of the French presidential election.

Former nzherald.co.nz news editor Simon Winter takes on the 775-kilometre Spanish Pilgrim Trail.

Although a survey has found France to be the rudest country in the world, Jim Eagles says attitudes in Paris have changed.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed overnight for the capture of a man suspected to be the gunman responsible for a spate of killings in the southwestern city of Toulouse.

P. K. Stowers climbs onto an electric bicycle for a guided tour uncovering the secrets of Paris.

P. K. Stowers takes a two-wheeled tour around one of Europe's most fascinating capital cities.

A father and his two sons were among four people who died when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwest France.

This picturesque alpine village leads a precarious existence, clinging to a dizzyingly steep hillside in the mountains that sweep down to the French Riviera.

It's quite a trek up to the village of Saorge, but it's worth it for the views, if you don't have vertigo, writes Alison McCulloch.

You can't help but feel a little frisson of excitement as you pass through the tall iron gates of the Shangri-La in Paris.

The colourful people of Provence offer a glimpse into the idyllic nature of country living. Photographs by Babiche Martens.