View Dragonfly Sites, France in a larger map La tourbe is French for peat and les tourbières are peat diggings. Les Tourbières de Vendoire lie in the Périgord vert region near the small village of Vendoire, north-west of the gastronomically…

This area holds a special place in our hearts because of a delightful campsite on a dairy sheep farm run by an equally delightful French couple, Luc and Nadine Vialaret. The campsite is perched beside farmer Luc’s irrigation lake, created…

Our first major hunting stop during our 2012 6-week French excursion was le Loir, being a masculine tributary of the better known female, La Loire. More precisely, we stayed at a very pleasant camping municipal, camping-de-la-Chabotiere, at Luché-Pringé. This was…

My main target for this 6-week trip in relation to Odonata-spotting was La Plaine de la Crau in the Camargue region of southern France, where I was hoping to see a few species new to me. However, it’s a long way down and it’s…