Tag: France

A Race Against Quarantine

Earlier this summer, the message was clear, wasn’t it?! “Boost the economy, have a holiday!” trilled the headlines, as the government promoted air bridges between the UK and a host of overseas destinations. After months of lockdown-induced damage to the nation’s finances, months of staring at the walls of our own houses,...

The Best of the Minibreaks: Grenoble, France

Facebook Memories tell me that today marks two full years since my Skyscanner whims took my husband and me on a pair of £27 return Ryanair flights from Stansted to Grenoble, in France, a city which sits on the very edge of the Alps. “It’s an industrial sort of...