Well I hope you enjoyed a little taste of Majorca.

If you would like to read about two famous people George Sand and Chopin who spent a romantic few months in Majorca click here.

So where shall we go to this week, France I think, so pop back Monday or during the week and see what I have come up with for you, enjoy celia

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France has given the world fabulous food, amazing artists, memorable monuments and so much more! Here we touch on just some of the things that France is most famous for;

Gourmet food – French cuisine is lauded across the world and for good reason. France has the highest number of Michelin starred restaurants. Specialities include croissants, brie cheese and jambon (local hams). Tourists are more obsessed with the more unusual delicacies; frogs’ legs, snails and horse steak! Give it a go, you might like it. And yes frogs legs do taste like chicken!

Famous French artists – France is the great center of art in the world and is home to a whole host of famous painters and sculptors over the years including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet who founded French impressionist painting, Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and hundreds of others.

Famous actors and actresses – The most famous French actress is Brigitte Bardot who epitomised the sex kitten look in the 50s and 60s. She also famously placed St Tropez and Tahiti Beach firmly on the naturist map with the 1956 classic movie, And God Created Woman.