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Talking about a new life in France…
Ever since I was a young adult I’ve been fascinated by people who uproot to follow a dream of a new life abroad. Where, why? Planned or on a whim?
The phenomenon of Britons moving to France has a long history. I’ve spent years researching British migration in a département that borders the Pyrenees – Ariège – a little-known area of south-west France with some beautifully wild and remote corners. All of this is narrated in my debut travelogue, A House at the End of the Track.
A House at the End of the Track: Travels Among the English in the Ariège Pyrenees is available as paperback from the publisher Matador as well as Amazon. We publish the ebook under our own imprint Medlar Tree Press, available from all the usual ebook retailers here.
You can also read snippets from what I found on the British migration to France page. And for anyone interested in how I turned an academic thesis into a travel memoir, see this article by Travel Writing World.
… walking in the Ariège Pyrenees …
I’ve been lucky to be able to spend time hiking and cycling around the Ariège Pyrenees, particularly the Couserans. The Illustrated Ariège walks page outlines some of my favourite hikes.
The Ariège images page gives a flavour
of the immense variety of Ariège landscapes: the high mountain ridges above the wooded valley sides, the glacier-gouged cirques – straight out of a geography textbook! – the rustic architecture and the cascading waterfalls. For more, see my Talking Location with… article for Trip Fiction.
The France page has articles on overland travel and stopovers in France.
Exploring Western Ukraine
My latest travels are around an area that’s sadly in the news these days. The Western Ukraine page has travel narratives from my family search and travels pre-2022. They have now been published as a set of illustrated articles in Travels in a Young Country: Discovering Ukraine’s Past and Present, a FREE ebook available from the main ebook stores.
See also: Finding the Wrong Family in Rural Western Ukraine published by Perceptive Travel.
FREE short story Unimaginable Times, set in the Ariège Pyrenees.
Unimaginable Times is a modern short story (6840 words) set in the Ariege Pyrenees. A woman finds herself uncomfortably close to the past when she travels for a family history project. To download a copy for any device (or pdf), just click the button.
Michelle Lawson | Travels in the hidden corners of Europe 