AZAY-LE-RIDEAU — It’s my fourth day here and I’ve pretty much learned my way around this little town. According to official records, the full-time population in 2007 was 3400, and the owner of the little restaurant where I had dinner two nights ago doubts it’s changed much since then. That doesn’t count the tourists, of…
AZAY-LE-RIDEAU — This town is pretty much on the main line as far as tourism is concerned … certainly more than Domme which is a five-hour train ride farther south in the Dordogne. Azay-le-Rideau is situated in the Loire Valley about 30-minutes from Tours, the nearest big city. I was here with my wife a…
My interest in World War Two is probably a generational thing. I was just eight years old when World War Two ended, and have always been fascinated by that epic conflict. And walking around these lovely little French villages, I can’t stop thinking that seventy years ago, soldiers of an occupying German Army were…