Who needs the rigours of the Tour de France? Ellen Branagh embarks on a leisurely cycle tour of the Loire Valley ‘Will this work with your bike, madame?” Fortunately it wasn’t a complicated piece of ...

There are hundreds of miles of bike trails through the chateaux towns of the Loire Valley — and that’s what tripped us up. We’d been trying to cycle the 17 miles from Chenonceaux to Chaumont, but kept ...

Picture-perfect turrets and atmospheric ruins abound in the region, so it is important to be discerning among so many stellar options. For sheer, unadulterated architectural splendour, François I's ...

‘Will this work with your bike, madame?” Fortunately it wasn’t a complicated piece of machinery I was being asked about. It was a glass of French white, produced in the Loire Valley, ready to be ...