Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Porquerolles is an island born of myth and magic, and the locals (fewer than 500 all year round, with numbers ...

In the 2008 French film “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis,” a goofy comedy that pokes fun at regional stereotypes, a hapless postal worker is rewarded for years of suffering in the country’s bleak north with ...

As the water taxi pulls out of the port at Tour de la Fondue, I breathe a sigh of relief. It’s a sticky 96 degrees, and the docks are heavy with pools of day trippers awaiting the ferry. We’re all en ...

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When you arrive at Porquerolles, via train from Paris and ferry from the Côte d’Azur, you’ll already be thirsty for a glass of cold rosé. They will have one waiting for you on this island off the ...

I love islands. I love the idea of islands, the illusion that I am floating on the world, rather than anchored to it. I love the sense of isolation that descends with darkness, the sound of water ...

A visit to the newly launched contemporary art museum, the Fondation Carmignac hidden away on the island of Porquerolles along the French Riviera, is somewhat of an odyssey, which is exactly what its ...

What makes it special? The French state bought most of Porquerolles in the 1970s, meaning that it is protected from over-development Standing in the shallows, I let my toes sink into the pearl-white ...

We discover the golden island of Porquerolles off the south coast of France. THE WEEKEND: Spend a long weekend on the picture-perfect Isle de Porquerolles, an island little-visited by Brits in a ...