The small town of Clisson sits about 17 kilometers to the southeast of Nantes, in the department of Loire-Atlantique. It's technically part of Brittany, but with a very different feel. "Tuscany in Brittany" reads the Office of Tourism website. The historic center of...
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Amboise & Chenonceau, Loire Valley
My latest trip to the Loire Valley, this August, was certainly not my first trip to the Loire, but on every visit, I discover something new. Chenonceau This visit was just a one-night stop-over between a week in Brittany and a few days in Paris with my aunt and uncle...
New Weekend Itineraries – Coming Soon!
I am still sorting through all my notes, photos and cartes de visite (business cards) from this summer's travels, but I will soon be posting four new weekend itineraries: The Marais Poitevin, La Rochelle and Île de Ré (4 nights) Belle-Île-en-Mer, Brittany (1 night)...
The Marais Poitevin and Angles sur l’Anglin
The Marais Poitevin, aptly nicknamed la Venise Verte or Green Venice, is a magical place, a large network of intertwining canals. Marais, like the neighborhood in Paris, actually means "swamp" and the Marais Poitevin is indeed a swamp. Yet miraculously, there are no...
My Photo of Chambord on BootsnAll’s Whygo.com!
My photo from the Château of Chambord in the Loire Valley has been selected as today's Whygo.com's "Photo of the Day"! Chambord was built by King François I in the early 1500s as a hunting lodge (with a mere 440 rooms and 85 staircases it was of course too small to be...
Weekend Getaway to the Loire Valley
You may have noticed that it poured rain all day this past Saturday and Sunday. (If you did not notice, you were probably not in France.) So what do you do on a weekend like this past weekend when you want to get out of town but you also want to stay indoors?...