Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After becoming an empty nester, I left my life behind in the US to buy a farmhouse in rural France. I've run into many issues, ...

I knew my new life in rural France had officially gone off the rails when I found a 2-ton cow in my swimming pool one morning. I heard a "whoosh," then saw her: an enormous brown and white shape ...

Surrounded by a deep blue sky and the green-fleeced slopes of rolling Basque-country hills, Bernadette Pochelu winds her way between an outdoor pen of pigs, a noisy barn full of lambs, and her ...

A French court is set to rule this week on whether an early-rising cockerel should be considered a neighbourly nuisance in a case that has led to crows of protest in the countryside. A woman from the ...

Four years ago, I moved to Languedoc, South West France, almost on a whim, because I fell in love with a crumbling old house on a pretty port in the village where my husband and I used to go on ...

SOUSCEYRAC, France, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The first thing a visitor to this rural French village sees upon entering town are road signs pointing the way out. The sprawling parking lot that is ...

Small business and residential users as far afield as the Pyrenees mountains in southern France could soon enjoy broadband connections thanks to a partnership between France Telecom (FT) and Alvarion.