When Jennie Vercouteren and her husband Ward went to live a more tranquil existence in the Pyrenees of France, they could hardly have foreseen the rollercoaster that was about to unfold. Their ...

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, from finding a cow in my pool to paying for expensive home repairs.

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 ...

He had arrived in Saudi Arabia fresh from running Relais & Chateaux properties in Paris and Provence and was eyeing a return to either location. But the first call he picked up from an industry ...