Gentle cycling is the perfect pace to enjoy the region’s sunflower fields and medieval towns – with gourmet food and fine wine along the way
As I cycle in golden light through the Loire’s vineyards, I…
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With ‘incompetence at every level’, Nantes are staring down the barrel at relegation ⊕
With 23 managerial appointments since Waldemar Kita bought Nantes in 2007, relegation beckons for Les Canaris
By Get French Football News
Back in the 1990s, Nantes were defined by their distinctive pla…
78 days ago
New £600m historical theme park would be a 'significant strategic opportunity' for Oxfordshire, says Blenheim Palace ⊕⊕
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Puy du Fou - a historical attraction in Pays de la Loire, western France - is planning to create a British version. And the CEO of a nearby UNESCO site has voiced his support.
89 days ago
Light red wines for spring drinking ⊕
In spring, a wine-drinker’s fancy may well turn to youthful reds from the Loire, made from pinot noir, cabernet franc and even hillside gamays
Can wine ever be good for you? The question has surely oc…
3 months ago
France on edge as Loire floods and storm Pedro threatens more chaos ⊖⊖
France is watching the Loire spill across streets and car parks in Les Ponts-de-Cé, near Angers.
France issues red flood alerts after ‘exceptional’ rainfall ⊖
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Aftermath of Storm Nils causes chaos across country with flooding under way or expected on Garonne, Maine and Loire rivers
France has issued red alerts for flooding in three départements as the after…
10 months ago
France’s eight weeks of summer holidays, or England's six? I’ve done both and know which one I prefer | Gillian Harvey ○
With vacations of up to 14 weeks on the continent, education can suffer – although on the plus side childcare and holidays are much more affordable
Remember the summer holidays of your childhood – the…
12 months ago
A moment that changed me: I thought I’d never fit in in rural France – until a revelation at the boulangerie ○
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I’d spent 10 years trying to be more like my goat-farming neighbours. What if I stressed my ‘Britishness’ instead?
I was standing in the long queue of a rural French boulangerie when it happened. The …
13 months ago
How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard ○
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One day, life as a finance consultant stopped making sense for Peter Hahn, so he took to organic winegrowing in the Loire instead
One Friday night 24 years ago, Peter Hahn was sitting in the back of a…
How I escaped the rat race, bought a corner of paradise in France and found love... by learning to make wine the VERY old fashioned way ○
Peter Hahn rises with the sun, bakes his own bread, works all day on his 25-acre vineyard in the Loire - mostly bent double with a pair of secateurs in his hands - and never, ever, takes a holiday.