Having enjoyed yesterday’s chateau visit, we make our way to Valencay, ostensibly to visit another, but when we arrive we find Le Chateau de Valencay closed for the season. Luckily there’s a tourist information office […]
Having enjoyed yesterday’s chateau visit, we make our way to Valencay, ostensibly to visit another, but when we arrive we find Le Chateau de Valencay closed for the season. Luckily there’s a tourist information office […]
The Les Plus Beaux Villages are each delightful in their own way, either for their cultural, historical or architectural uniqueness, but every so often we come across one that’s so perfectly charming it stands out […]
Well it took 112 days, but I think we finally managed a day of rest. Possibly only the second one on this trip. I don’t really count the first, trapped inside with raging storms. The […]
Thanks to the vagaries of satellite navigation we find ourselves in two Les Plus Beaux Villages today. Driving to Angles sur l’Anglin in search of a boulangerie, we stumble across the very pretty Saint Benoit […]
Christopher’s a man on a mission today with a long drive planned, taking us out of central France into the northwest. It means spending most of the day on the road, rendering me a little […]
Having fallen headlong in love with the Bourgogne region I have a bad case of the “I don’t want to go home” blues. It doesn’t help stopping at a Carrefour. My favourite way of discovering […]
We rise to gloriously blue skies, such a gift this late into Autumn. All the better for the full day we have ahead of us. First, an exploration of La Clayette, home of the fairytale […]
As far as our travels through Lyon took us yesterday, there’s one place we didn’t quite make – its famous fine food market, Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse. Named for the revered chef, a […]
Tucked away in the south eastern corner of France with a reputation for culinary delights, Lyon has long eluded our French travels. It was just that bit too far off of our usual path and […]
We’re winding our way slowly north, stopping today at La Garde-Adhemar. The village is set into a limestone spur, surrounded by defensive walls and is also known as the white nymph of the Tricastin plain. […]