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  • Glorious Gastronomy and the Enchanting French Loire Valley
    The Loire Valley known as "the Garden of France" is a fertile place where a rich farmland is spread on both sides of the beautiful Loire river. The region became the favourite residence of French Kings and Queens from the middle ages to the Renaissance. Little by little, strongholds had become magnificent castles of the Renaissance, which had been restored during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • The Reality Concerning Valentines Day – Then and Now
    In a second Santa and Rudolph are replaced with red ribbon and pink hearts and mass produced Valentine's Day cards in thousands of designs and sizes – large, small, serious, silly, inexpensive, expensive, musical (my least favourite because they sound so tinny) and traditional ones. Valentine's Day is the biggest single 24 hour period for florists, a huge event for greeting card companies and a boon for candy makers.
  • The Loire Valley – a Veritable Gastro-Cycling Paradise
    Envisage a land of mile after mile of nearly flat bike routes that gently sluice through a fertile river valley irrigating some of the world's finest acclaimed vineyards. Imagine enchanting renaissance castles, charming villages, and sun-flower-filled hillsides. Then, combine all this with cuisine that would make even the most seasoned chef salivate. The few drivers you encounter are courteous and pleasant showing an admiration for the cyclist. Do you know where you are? This is not fantasyland
  • Five Reasons to Vacation at a Castle in France
    If you have never holidayed in a French chateau before, here are some reasons why you should book one today.
  • Incredible Loire Valley White White to Lay Down
    Wine is a complex breathing substance. A bottle opened now will taste very different opened several years from now. What you should end up with after a few years of suitable aging is more complexity to the flavour of the wine because the bitter astringent flavoured tannins precipitate out, acids lose a bit of their bite, and the taste of fruit comes out more.
  • The Amazing Benefits of your private Infra-Red Sauna – You won't believe it
    Relaxing in the gentle warmth of an infra-red sauna, your body is hard at work, making sweat, burning calories and pumping blood. Conventional saunas need high air temperature to pull impurities from your body, but our infrared heated sauna can directly penetrate up to 45 mm inside the body for an amazing detox treatment.
  • Live Like Johnny Depp in a Castle in France
    You might not spend $16,000 for a bottle of 1978 Romanee Conti in a restaurant in London and hang around with Rolling stones bad boys Ron Wood and Keith Richards, but you can spend a week or two living like Johnny Depp in a French castle.
  • Do Something Surprising This Year – Getaway Somewhere Intimate For Valentines Day
    Valentine's Day is almost here, a day that each year terrifies men. Every year, you commit to yourself that next year; you are going to do something different. If you still do not have any creative ideas for a special surprise, do not panic, but you had better start giving it some serious thought. Here is a Valentine's Day gift idea that is sure to please your love on Valentine's Day.
  • New Year to Saint Valentine's Day – National Break Up Season
    Accordingly to research on dating, the time between the December holidays and Valentine's Day is National Break-up Season when people are more than twice as likely to think about breaking up than at any other time of the year.
  • Try Something a Bit Different This St Valentine's Day - Vouvray
    Are you tired of the same old Valentine's Day dozen long-stemmed red roses and box of chocolates and dinners out that make you feel like a gold-fish in a gold-fish bowl. This year do something different, something unique that tells the person you love that you care, and that you took the time to think of something different this year.
  • The historic story of Diane de Poitiers and you think your marriage is complicated
    The story of Diane de Poitiers should serve as a motivation to all of us who feel not-as-young-as-we-used-to-be. Diane was born in 1499, the daughter of Jean de Poitiers and thus a member of a very ancient line. A beauty from a very young age, at 13 she married into another distinguished line when she became the spouse of Louis de Breze who was 39 years older than Diane and a grandson of Charles VII.
  • The beautiful Loire Valley of France – Picturesque Golf Vacation Destination
    Tourists to France who bring along their golf clubs will not be disappointed or have to face the challenges of arranging tee times as they typically do when visiting Ireland and Scotland. In France there are 280,000 registered golfers for 340 courses. This means lots of available tee times and no crowds on a course.
  • The Father of Modern Magic - Robert-Houdin
    Robert-Houdin who was born in Blois is often credited as being "the father of modern magic". Before him, magicians performed at fairs and in marketplaces, but Robert-Houdin performed magic at private parties and in theatres. Like his audience, he wore formal clothes. Many magicians today mimic this by wearing tail-coats, though some magicians consider this as old-fashioned and prefer contemporary clothes. He is widely considered the pioneer in the modern performance art of illusion. The stage name of Harry Houdini was taken in tribute to him, though Houdini later denounced Robert-Houdin.
  • Delicious Goats’ Cheeses of France’s Loire Valley
    The Loire Valley offers goat's cheese enthusiasts a paradise. It is a perfect location for a holiday meandering alongside the Loire River, visiting famous historic chateaux, cheese producers and caves for wine tasting and even staying in a boutique chateau hotel if you chose. This area is justly called the Garden of France, and is sprinkled with amazing Renaissance castles open to the public and an abundance of fine wines and cheeses. Chateau du Guerinet near Blois is a perfect base for a cheese lover's Loire Valley holiday.
  • Loire Valley Wines – 5 Wine Appellations Scattered Among the Historic Chateaux
    The Loire River in France winds through the Touraine region for almost 100 kilometres dotted with many amazing French chateau open to the public and a wonderful location for a holiday. There are 5 AOC wines (Appelations d'origine Controlees - wines of controlled origin and quality) awarded throughout this region: Touraine, Touraine Amboise, Touraine Azay-le-Rideau, Touraine Mesland and the latest being Touraine Noble-Joue awarded its AOC status in 2001. The combination of vineyards and castle ma
  • The Ten best castles to tour in the Loire Valley in France
    The kings of France, seduced by the mild climate and the game-filled oak forests erected their sumptuous homes here in the Loire Valley. They surrounded themselves with the greatest architects and artiests of this era. This is the country of a thousand chateau. The valley is full of not only royal castles and renaissance palaces, national museum and large magnificent chateaux, but also medieval castles and fortresses, small fairy tale manors, private chateaux, medieval cities, churches, abbeys, and cathedrals. Many castles and stately homes are open to the public: some are state owned, such as Chambord and Blois; others are private, and still lived in. A huge proportion of them run sound and light shows during the summer season. Chateau de Chenonceau and Chateau de Chambord are definitely worth a visit and are close to Blois.
  • Loire Valley Chateaux - If Their Walls Could Talk
    Loire Valley chateaux are full of amazing tales. At Chateau Chenonceau you can hear 'The future king was twelve and he took a mistress aged thirty-two.' The image of the chateaux of this region may be all tapestries, towers and topiary and faded furniture but for two hundred years, these great palaces were host to world-class debauchery and countless murders.
  • Which French Historic Loire Valley Chateaux Must You See on a Family Vacation
    The Loire Valley is a spectacular destination for a family vacation. There are many historical castles to see, so many that it can be difficult to decide on which ones to see before it becomes too much for the children to bare. Each of the Loire Valley castles listed below have their own special attraction.
  • So You Want to Get Married in France
    France the land of over thirty thousand castles is a spectacular country to choose to hold your wedding ceremony. However a civil wedding in France requires legal procedures and advance planning, as well as a minimum stay of 4 weeks and blood tests to complete the necessary documentation prior to the legal ceremony.
  • What You Didn't Know About Saint Valentine's Day
    Saint Valentine's Day is one of the major retail days in the calendar year. In 2006, the average American spent around US$100 on his or her significant other, totalling $13.70 billion. Men usually spend about twice as much as women (in 2006 $135.67 and $68.64 respectively), mostly on cards, chocolates, flowers, and dinner at a swish restaurant. Around 180 million cards are given industry-wide a year (excluding packaged kids' valentines for classroom exchanges), making Valentine's Day the 2nd major holiday for giving greeting cards, according to Hallmark.
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