AU REVOIR FRANCE – A BIENTOT! We spent our day watching the French countryside roll past our window as or train sped from Tours to Toulouse, in France’s South-West. After 6 hours in transit we arrived tired and decidedly uninterested in the sights here, which is a pity […]
CHÂTEAUX OF THE LOIRE VALLEY – PART III Today is our last day in the Loire Valley and we wanted to end our château sight-seeing with something special, so we set out to visit Château de Chenonceau and Château d’Amboise today – two of the regions best known […]
CHÂTEAUX OF THE LOIRE VALLEY – PART II When King Francois I moved his court to Paris in the late 1500s the Loire Valley was no longer the centre of French power. However, most of the French nobles still liked to spend time in the Loire due to […]
CHÂTEAUX OF THE LOIRE VALLEY – PART I The Loire Valley once marked the edge of the Kingdom of France, with the Loire River an important boundary between rival territories. So important was this region that the capital used to be situated in the valley. Even when the […]
WALKING TOUR OF TOURS The Loire Valley is just 250km South of Paris, but this fertile river valley is a world away in terms of pace of life and atmosphere. Where as Paris was busy, bustling, and overwhelming in almost every way, the Loire Valley is quiet, peaceful, […]
Wandering Soles 