April 2019 – lovin' the Loire

Yellow Vests see red over Amboise lockdown for Macron visit

News

Nearly 200 Yellow Vests on Saturday staged a protest in Amboise, where French President Emmanuel Macron is due on Thursday, May 2, along with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with the town under virtual lockdown. Activists from…

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Red robes and Chinon wine, in a cave

Food and wine / News / The Loire valley

The French are serious about their wine, and none more so than the stalwarts of the Confrérie des Entonneurs Rabelaisiens--loosely translated, a brotherhood of winemakers who channel the great humanist and storyteller Rabelais. The people of the Loire Valley city of Chinon refer to the 16th-century satirist who gave us…

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