Exquisite sleeps in Loire chateaux
Château de Chissay is one of several chateaus in France’s Loire Valley to offer overnight accommodations to visitors. Chateau Chissay’s dining room awaits with fine china, crystal and starched tablecloths. Both...
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Learning from others
I learned lots from my group of international journalists while visiting France’s Loire Valley in September. The ten of us, shown here after our wonderful hot-air balloon voyage, came from Tokyo, Hong...
Loire chateaux gardens
Château de Chenonceau visitors look over some of the gardens originated in the 16th century by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici as kayakers on the river over which the chateau ...
Nantes Loire location shapes its food
This fish monger’s stall was one of the busiest early on a Wednesday morning at Nantes’ Talensac Market. The food of Nantes, once at the Atlantic Ocean mouth of France’s Loire River,...
Off to France
On Labor Day I’m headed back to France, this time to a small section of the Loire Valley where I’ll visit the hometown of Jules Verne and see and see how his genius...
I’m so honored
Here’s my news from the spring meeting of the Midwest Travel Writers Association, of which I’ve been a member since 1983. Those who follow my regular blogs got other aspects of these...
Day One In France
The plane ride was rough, no doubt. A five-hour layover in Newark and six-hour flight on AirFrance. Yet here I am, in Paris again. And completely breathless. Today marked the first of...
caves are cool even in France
Caves are usually cool places to be, a compelling thought in this heat. Depending on their access to the surface, a cave is between 55 and 65 degrees year round…quite pleasant these...
Art of packing specific to the trip
Soon I’ll be off to France. I’m shown here with the clothes I’ll wear on the flight and the things that need to go in my personal bag.The act of packing for...
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