I’m much too busy watching the Tour de France to know much else that’s happening in the world so instead I’ll issue a plea for help while everyone is in a holiday mood.
Although me and Mrs B spend as much time travelling around France enjoying ourselves and calling it work as possible it is taking a while to visit all 36000 communes in France ourselves, so we are always looking for input from other travellers and tourists, visitors and vagrants, expats and layabouts with nothing better to do.
A while ago I added ‘easy to use’ buttons on our pages about places in France so that our visitors could quickly share their comments and photos, local attractions and forthcoming events with us – and we’ve had a great response so far (thanks to all!)
But of course there is always room for more, so if you live in France, are visiting France this year, or have a computer burdened down with photos you took on previous visits, and are able to share a photo or a snippet of information with us it would be very welcome and very useful to our site visitors as well.
OK so we can’t pay you but just think of the happy warm feeling you’ll get from knowing hundreds of people will get from seeing your photos or learning about some attraction that you enjoyed visiting!
Feel like helping out? Well hugs, kisses and a virtual beer for you! You can find every single place in France, whether we already have an article about it or not, using the index at places in France, otherwise use the search box at the top of every page to help find somewhere. Or if you can’t be bothered with all that use the form on any page and just tell us what it relates to in the description box).
And we don’t ask for your email address if you send us something – not because we don’t want to say thanks, but because it puts people off helping if they don’t know if we are going to then send them adverts for cheap holidays every week for the next 10 years. We’re not…and without your email address we can’t.
By the way, the pictures shown above are the entrance to the deer park in Chateauvillain in the Champagne-Ardenne region, and Beaugency in the Loiret department, both recently contributed by our visitors. Thanks!
Of course, the first thing I did was look at the village where we went on hols. this year and was somewhat amused to see the star photo was of a town 15kms away! The same of our home village – wooden fronted building in town 10kms distant. The info. did not say anything about local shop/church/market day but that there is a World Heritage site within 50kms. To actually see places’ main streets I regret that you have to rely on the little yellow man on Google Maps. You cannot be after info about village events that may be happening in a months time. BTW I’m not trying to be negative.
Hi Lesley, you are right and this is of course the big challenge of having a site or guide book covering the whole of France, and with limited resources.
We have visited many areas and places, and continue to visit more, and also have contributors who have submitted lots of useful information – but there will always be places with insufficient coverage – perhaps especially the larger towns, smaller villages, and places in regions that don’t really attract many visitors.
This is of course why we are now trying to encourage visitors to share their information, and we have some tourist offices in France who are now adding local information for their towns and other visitors who are sharing photos and comments – this is hopefully the best way for us to consistently improve the site.
Can’t say it’s easy or quick though, and any suggestions how to make it easier are very welcome!
Thanks for taking the comment gracefully. In our village we have a web page and lots of useful info was posted the first year. Now it is has photos of events of two years ago and not a lot on it that has much to do with the future. The opening times of the La Poste (fewer) are not current and the Resto. still has the last managements detail. Its such a shame that things happen and yet the organizers only think of a notice stuck on the side of the road. We had the Tour de Dordogne cycle race thro’ the village but no one thought to give any publicity to it and so appart from blocking the side roads for a few minutes, they got no support.