Tourte de canard aux châtaignes et aux pommes

For many French, the summer holidays are synonymous with the seaside. That is why its coastline, although 3,120 kilometres long, is in many places as jammed with roasting human flesh as Blackpool or the Costa Brava. In recent years, however, there has been a big shift away from the seaside to what the French call ‘tourisme vert’ - holidays inland, which offer anything from fishing and yachting on lakes to gentle hikes in rolling countryside, serious mountain walking or just far ni