by Sarah Heath | Nov 27, 2025 | Living lightly
I’ve just lit the wood-burning stove in my kitchen. It’s almost December, and we’ve had frosts on the ground for the past few mornings here in the Tarn, SW France. It’s not as straightforward as flicking on a radiator, and I often have to run to my woodshed in the...
by Sarah Heath | Sep 21, 2025 | Slow travel
Campagnac has a population of around 150 and sits on the hill next to my village, Itzac. Its biggest claim to fame is that Judith Keppel, the first £1m winner on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, lived there. For those who don’t watch trashy UK TV programmes, it also has...
by Sarah Heath | Aug 22, 2025 | Non France
Call it “geographical dissonance”, “cultural FOMO”, or “travel awareness gaps”, but I’m still mildly suffering from one of them after a two-week road trip which crossed Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. These last two countries are #43 and #44 on my ‘Visited List’, yet a...
by Sarah Heath | Aug 10, 2025 | Europe
Is ‘morning tourism’ a thing? My phone registered a first photo at 6:31 am. The 500m, early-light walk from our flat down to the sea front in the quiet fishing village of Postira was paused every few metres to allow our eyes to take in the view across the Splitski...
by Sarah Heath | Aug 5, 2025 | Architecture
An abortive trip to Blaye to find the landing spot of the two remaining British SBS men who took part in Operation Frankton in 1942 brought us very briefly to this pretty French town on the Gironde estuary on France’s Atlantic coast, just north of Bordeaux....
