Classic French Street Scenes in the Touraine Loire Valley

Yes, France really does fit some of the stereotypes you hear about. It is full of charming rustic villages where life is slow and everyone cycles to the boulangerie. Where we live it is easy to get a photograph of one of the neighbours bikes, leaning against the wall of somebody's house while they pop in to have a quick word on the way back from buying the essential daily bread. If you would like the chance to take simple nostalgic photos like this then book a tour with us. 

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

Photo Stops on Your Tour of the Loire Valley

Sometimes a beautiful view just presents itself, en route from one major attraction to another. If the road conditions allow it, we will stop to take a look. We love clients who take photos too. It is one of the advantages of taking a small private tour with us rather than being stuck on a bus for hours.

Clients Crystal and Jen, from the US, braving the nettles and photographing sunflowers and phacelia in a field we passed.

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

Come and See the Loire Valley in Spring

The Loire Valley is beautiful in spring, with wisteria, lilac, magnolias, fruit trees and judas trees making the most glorious display. On the ground below them will be daffodils, tulips, primroses, honesty and daisies. We would love to share this fabulous display with you and will make sure any visit to a chateau includes time in the garden.

 

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel. 

What is the Cuisine of the Loire Valley?

Salads, or more precisely, salades composées, are one of the unsung heroes of French cuisine. The most well known to anglophones is salade nicoise, but you can get delicious and satisfying salads all over France. In the Loire Valley the regional salad is called Salade Tourangelle and includes morcels of slow cooked belly pork. Lettuce is not a garnish here, it is meant to be eaten, and tomatoes are something you look forward to in the late summer when they are ripe and full of flavour. Out of season tomatoes are not consumed much by most people, although these days they are available. Come and sample the salads of the Loire Valley when you book a tour with us!

Homegrown cherry tomatoes in our potager.

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For details of our private guided tours of chateaux, gardens, wineries, markets and more please visit the Loire Valley Time Travel website. We would be delighted to design a tour for you.

We are also on Instagram, so check us out to see a regularly updated selection of our very best photos. You may also like to check out our YouTube channel.