From truffle markets to medieval towns, Dordogne’s winter season offers black Périgord truffles, château visits and classic ...

A reader once asked me: If I were to bring a spry, 73-year-old grandmother to Europe, where would I go? My response: France's Dordogne River Valley. I'd take her for a lazy canoe ride down the river, ...

Elbows on a rustic windowsill at a farm in the Dordogne region, I lose track of time watching Denis grab one goose at a time from an endless line. In a kind of peaceful, mesmerizing trance, he fills ...

The Dordogne region is rich in history. Ancient paintings within limestone caves along the river valley date from about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, when Cro Magnon hunter-gatherers used flint to ...

I was first sent to the Dordogne Valley in southwestern France more than two decades ago to shoot a story about a truffle farmer for a food magazine. It was late November, the weather was bleak, there ...

At the edge of Issigeac's buzzing market, the pumpkin festival is in full swing. Fat, orange, bulbous pumpkins are piled high on the cobbled pavement. The scent of freshly baked pumpkin tarts wafts ...

Bordeaux, France — Maybe you’ve been to Bordeaux, tucked in to the southwest corner of France, some 350 miles from Paris. No doubt you made a point of riding the sleek city tram to the revitalized ...

Here is the terrible beauty of being in love: that you will know things together that no one else will know, events that exist only in the commingling and exchange of memories. For our second annual ...