They say a man's home is his castle, but there are castles and then there are tents. We are camping tonight just across the river from the Chateau de Sully, but don't despair, this is no hard luck story. Tonight we are trying out a three star campground....
Last night we finally used our camping gear at a lovely spot on the river between Tours and Blois. There are lots of municipal and private campgrounds dotting the shores of the Loire in fantastic locations. Cycle tourists are waved in even when the designated spots...
Saumur's Chateaux as seen in the Duke de Berry's Book of hours. Gord: I am a big fan of fireworks. While Ruth will generally decide in favour of...
July 13, 2016 AngersGordon: I love last judgement paintings, with their imaginative depictions of devils and the torments of the damned. So I was delighted to learn that Angers has a famous Apocalypse tapestry - several hundred feet of tapestry...
July 12, 2016Ruth: Our first day cycling the Loire together was lovely. It is such a treat to be on a dedicated bike path in a beautiful area. My knees seem to be holding up in spite of a few minor protests when I first start out. The ride is as flat as a Bretagne...
July 11, 2016 NantesGordon: Ruth has a cold today, so I cycled the first leg of our potentially transcontinental trip on my own. I took the train to the seaside town of Pornic, conceptually dipped my wheel in the Atlantic, and cycled the 60 Kms back to...
July 9, 2016I first heard about Chartres Cathedral when I was 18, and my dad was on a sabbatical working outside of Paris near Versailles. We could see the cathedral towering above the fields in the distance on our drives, but I never made it there. Of course when you...
On July 7th 2016 Gord and I fly to France to begin one of our longest bike tours yet.This trip is our Plan B. Originally we were going to try to cycle across Canada, but the stars were not aligned for that trip. In March I bought a new bike even though there...