We continued through the Cher Valley to Saint-Martin-le-Beau, another small village in Indre-et-Loire which we visited on 10 September. Arriving with the motorhome was slightly more complicated than we had expected because almost everything here feels small and...
After Athée-sur-Cher we continued only a short distance through the countryside of the Cher Valley before reaching Dierre, another small village that we would probably never have discovered without travelling through France by motorhome. We stopped beside the River...
Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher is now known throughout France primarily because of ZooParc de Beauval, yet the town existed for many centuries before the first exotic bird arrived at the place called Beauval, and the contrast between the two histories is one of the most...
Athée-sur-Cher was another of those small French places that we probably would never have discovered without travelling through the country by motorhome. Situated in the Loire Valley, not far from Tours and the River Cher, it is a quiet rural commune rather than one...
French food is sometimes reduced abroad to a collection of famous dishes, restaurants and elaborate sauces, but travelling through France makes it much easier to understand that the real characteristic of French cuisine is not one particular recipe but the...
