The New Zealand dollar fell to a four-month low overnight amid market concern about the election of new governments in France and Greece.

Michele Hewitson ticks off the items on her Paris to-do lists and discovers even more to do.

Paul Harper wraps up the key events, issues and opinions ahead of the French presidential election.

Former nzherald.co.nz news editor Simon Winter takes on the 775-kilometre Spanish Pilgrim Trail.

Although a survey has found France to be the rudest country in the world, Jim Eagles says attitudes in Paris have changed.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed overnight for the capture of a man suspected to be the gunman responsible for a spate of killings in the southwestern city of Toulouse.

P. K. Stowers climbs onto an electric bicycle for a guided tour uncovering the secrets of Paris.

P. K. Stowers takes a two-wheeled tour around one of Europe's most fascinating capital cities.

A father and his two sons were among four people who died when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwest France.