To enquire about our private guided tours of chateaux, wineries, markets and more email us or use our contact form. More tour ideas can be found on the Loire Valley Time Travel website. If you would like an idea of how your tour might look and sound, please check out our YouTube channel.
We are big fans of heritage engineering, and find that our clients are too. Consequently, if you take a tour with us and we pass something like an Eolienne Bollee, we will stop for you to see it, and we will tell you the history of these splendid wind turbines.
To enquire about our private guided tours of chateaux, wineries, markets and more email us or use our contact form. More tour ideas can be found on the Loire Valley Time Travel website. If you would like an idea of how your tour might look and sound, please check out our YouTube channel.
Leonardo da Vinci spent the last three years of his life in Amboise. Talk to us about a very special experience that we can offer, immersing you in the places Leonardo knew. See where he lived, learn about his work and visit his grave.
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| Chateau du Clos Lucé |
The City of Tours, and smaller towns like Amboise, Azay le Rideau, Chinon, Blois and Loches have a nice selection of independent boutiques selling fashion (new and second-hand), lingerie, fashion accessories, leather goods, household linen, kitchenware, jewellery, cosmetics, wine, cheese, baked goods, art, antiques and flowers. If you would like to spend a half day shopping for unique gifts and souvenirs just let us know and we can plan an itinerary for you.
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| Hat (and handbags and gloves) shop in Loches, owned by the same family for several generations. |
Visit the Chateau Royal of Amboise with us in a 1953 Citroen. It is one of the most famous of the Loire Valley chateau, and steeped in history. We show you just a few highlights of what the chateau has to offer, focusing on the lovely grounds.
We are working with the chateau to develop an exclusive visit using our cars, finishing with aperatif on the terrace.
To enquire about our private guided tours of chateaux, wineries, markets and more email us or use our contact form. More tour ideas can be found on the Loire Valley Time Travel website. If you would like an idea of how your tour might look and sound, please check out our YouTube channel.You might not think door nails are very interesting, but you'd be wrong. Check out our 2 minute video on the subject. If you take a tour with us, this is the sort of fascinating trivia you will learn (and be able to impress your friends with later). We touch on the big stuff too, of course, but we like to make your tour fun and unique.
To enquire about our private guided tours of chateaux, wineries, markets and more email us or use our contact form. More tour ideas can be found on the Loire Valley Time Travel website.
One of the jobs we find ourselves doing from time to time doesn't involve traditional visits to chateaux and wineries, and quite often the client isn't even present. Sometimes we are contacted by authors who are in the early stages of writing a book set in the Loire Valley. Our local knowledge of the geography, properties and history is invaluable in helping writers piece together plausible stories. We find that the period that seems to fascinate authors is the Second World War, and our own interest in this rather hidden history means that we can often help where others could not.
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| Refugees from Paris in June 1940 heading for Bordeaux and overnighting at a farm near where we live. |
If you are an author and would like someone on the ground who can answer your questions about the Loire Valley please get in touch.We understand that discretion and confidentiality are important to authors, particularly in the early stages of researching a new book.