Nantes is one of France’s great provincial cities and stands – in the minds of the French – for the Atlantic West as Marseille stands for the South and Strasbourg for the East. Foreign visitors may be familiar with the city as the entry point to two of the country’s most famous tourist regions: Brittany,…
Vive la serendipité! Yes, you guessed it: this is another post in praise of serendipity walking, the art of making discoveries while wandering around aimlessly with the sole purpose of entertaining yourself. At least, this is how it is commonly defined, although, on a deeper level, there is much more to it than that. Serendipity…
On any hiking holiday in the Loire Valley, you will, sooner or later, pass through one of the two largest towns in the area, Angers and Tours. You may also find yourself having a couple of hours to kill. Today, we will give you suggestions of how to do this. Easy Hikes on River Promenades…
This week’s walk is, at first glance, a carbon copy of last week’s: we take a walk along the Loire, … … see a beautiful castle … … and visit a historical little town that was built in its shadow. What’s more: the centrepiece of the walk is another river island in between the train…
Hiking and cycling make good bedfellows. There are only a few areas where you see one and not the other – even in high altitudes on rugged terrain where mountain bikers have become ever more prominent over the past decade. One exception is the Valley of the Loire in central France. This valley is famous…