Long autoroute trip? Then stop off for a rummage in a brocante (a French flea market), says Tom Kevill-Davies, who has furnished his house from them Among my childhood memories of summer holidays in ...

Every year, more than ten million Britons holiday in France – lured by the wine, weather and laid-back pace of life. But what most of us don’t realise is that, just a few steps from the boulangeries ...