By Lucy Pitts
If you love the Vendée for its enchanting landscape and breath taking historical monuments, then the chances are you’ll equally love its crisp, cold, clear blue winter skies, sharp frosts
and bracing Decembers. But whilst perhaps not the most obvious choice of venue, if you want to really indulge yourself in the spirit of Christmas, the Vendée has some surprisingly unique and achingly atmospheric Christmas events.
A Souk Christmas market at the Abbey at Maillezais
High up on what was once a rocky island in the heart of the Marias Poitevin are the ghostly and echoing remains of the centuries old Abbaye du Marias at
The magic of Christmas, Vendée style