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 […]
Breakfast before castles. Every epic journey should start with a good wholesome breakfast. So, ignoring the recommendation of our fawningly helpful hosts to go for a vending machine breakky, we started the day with a wander to the Osaka train station thinking we’d find something savoury and awesome […]
Wandering Soles 