The Loire Valley, with the Loire à vélo cycling route, is a popular region with cyclists and part of the Eurovelo 6 route which goes from Saint Nazaire on the Atlantic Coast to the Black Sea, a total of 3653 kilometers, along the Loire, Rhine and Danube Rivers, going through France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, …
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Red Roses and a Blue Gate – Roses rouges et un portail bleu
I love the contrast between the red roses and blue gate. Today I saw a pink bicycle. I might use it for the next City Daily Photo theme day of “bicycles in your town”. J’aime bien le contraste entre les roses rouges et le portail bleu. Aujourd’hui j’ai vu un vélo rose. Peut-être que je …
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CDP Theme Day – Upside Down Château
I have always been fascinated by Dali’s “Swans Reflecting Elephants“. I would have liked to find something similar but to no avail so here’s the next best thing: a château reflecting a castle. The photo below is an unexpected reflection but doesn’t qualify today because I didn’t take it in the Loire Valley, but in Paris at …
CDP theme day – Stylish Once
I had a few candidates for ths month’s City Daily Photo Theme Day of stylish but this is the only one Jean Michel and I agreed on. This neglected corner is in an 18th century private park near Gien For other entries, click here. J’avais plusieurs possibilités pour la journée thème de City Daily Pboto ce …
CDP Theme Day – Revolution in French Cuisine
So what revolution could that be? Take a look at the instruments on the right side of our illustrious townsman, Denis Papin, who invented the pressure cooker in 1679 under the name of digesteur, which most certainly caused a revolution in French cuisine a couple of centuries later! To find out how other bloggers interpreted the …
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CDP Theme Day – My Camera-Shy Self-Portrait
This photo, taken unwittingly, seemed a perfect entry for this month’s City Daily Photo Theme Day entitled my camera-shy self-portrait.For other entries, click here. Cette photo, prise à mon insu, semble parfaite pour le thème mensuel de City Daily Photo intitulé mon auto-portrait de la part de quelqu’un qui déteste être pris en photo. Pour d’autres …
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City Daily Photo Theme Day – Ageing
There is a lot of ageing going on in this photo – the gate, the lock, the posts, the trees, the wall, the tiles on top of the wall …For other takes on the theme, click here. Il y a beaucoup de choses dans cette photo qui sont en train de vieillir : le portail, …
CDP theme day – What would you miss? My house!
The theme this month on CIty Daily Photo is what would you miss if you had to leave the city you usually post from forever. Well, my answer is easy: Closerie Falaiseau, our Renaissance home built in 1584. Can you blame me? For other entries, click here. Le thème de City Daily Photo ce mois-ci est …
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City Daily Photo Theme Day – Best Photo for 2014 – Weather Vane Boat – Girouette gabarre
I asked our readers to choose their favourite photo for 2014 and then chose one from among their suggestions that I think is typical of the Loire. This weather vane in the pretty little village of Cour sur Loire depicts a gabarre flat-bottomed boat. From the Greek karabos meaning shell, refers to several types of river boats in various places along the …
CDP Theme Day – Worker – Travailleur
The City Daily Photo theme for December is worker. This is Jean Michel drilling a hole through a 70 cm wall which is what you sometimes need to do when you live in a house that is over 400 years old! For other takes on the theme click here. Le thème de City Daily Photo …