Picardy has many attractions which we would normally associate with Normandy (but without the crowds !). Cheese, green rolling hills and cute villages…
 

At La Fontaine Orion, local producer Claire Halleux welcomes visitors to her farm-shop to stock up on cheese and cream, as well as tarte aux Maroilles fresh from the on-site kitchen, apple juice and cider. Maroilles is star of the show of the Thiérache region (near Belgium) with its rolling countryside, woods and empty tree-lined roads. It’s a place to embrace authenticity as well as the great outdoors, visiting typical farms, farm shops, fortified churches and sleepy villages.