This Tuesday, the Vendée took pride of place in the Olympic Torch Relay. With 250 km of coastline, this region has a strong identity and is home to nautical sports, seaside tourism and fishing. The ...

Golden sandy beaches stretching for miles, warm sunny days and a holiday the children described as one of their best ever - what more could we ask for? Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

Lumière is the French word for light and the tag Côte de Lumière for Vendée comes from the fact that the region enjoys more than 2,300 hours of sunshine a year The Côte de Lumière isn’t as well known ...

The beautiful beach at Talmond-St-Hilaire, on France's Vendée coast, is known as Plage du Veillon and is popular with walkers and families. Amid the abundance of big and lovely Vendée beaches, the ...

A queue is forming at the stall by the gate of Camping La Plage. Clutching baguettes for breakfast, these eager shoppers are already stocking up for tonight's dinner. In Britain, you'd be unlikely to ...

STRIDING through the Atlantic on the Vendee coast of western France with a group of wet-suited strangers I get a slightly disconcerting reminder that love of the sea runs deep in France. I am enjoying ...

Taking a family of three small children by ferry to France is a bit like dragging my bulky 6ft 5in frame around a fiddly treetop zipwire circuit – awkward, sometimes scary but ultimately great fun. We ...

Holidaymakers who seek their fun on two wheels could do a lot worse than take a trip to the Vendee region of France, says Alexa Copeland NESTLED on the Atlantic coastline in the Pays-de-la-Loire ...

THE prospect of spending our first night sleeping in the car could hardly be described as an ideal way to begin our holiday, but that seemed to be the inevitable consequence of arriving at our Vendée ...

THEY appeared like images from a half-forgotten past . . . once familiar names which had gradually faded with the passage of time. Each one served as a jolt to the memory, prompting evocative ...

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