Saumur

We rode into a place called Saumur, which had a massive Chateaux visible on the top of a hill.

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Cabernet Franc, grown in the Chinon and Saumur regions of the Loire, has bright fruit and high-toned acidity like Pinot Noir.

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He was the son of Jean Proulx and of Louise Val-lee of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Nantilly, in the City and Arrondissement of Saumur, in the Bishopric of Angers, Anjou today in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France and he arrived here sometime before 1672 for he married at Québec City on the 5 June 1673 to Jacquette Fournier.

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In France, I rented a BMW 118d hatchback for an excursion from Paris to Saumur in the Loire Valley region.

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He was the son of Jean Proulx and of Louise Val-lee of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Nantilly, in the City and Arrondissement of Saumur, in the Bishopric of Angers, Anjou today in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France and he arrived here sometime before 1672 for he married at Québec City on the 5 June 1673 to Jacquette Fournier.

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Sancerre, Savennières, Saumur-Champigny … the names alone are mouth-watering.

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In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as "troglodytes," used as homes, hotels, restaurants, museums, wineries, farms silkworms, mushrooms, snails and even a disco and a zoo.

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In the old centre of Saumur, Auberge Saint-Pierre 6 place Saint-Pierre, auberge-saintpierre.com has traditional regional cuisine at reasonable prices, such as boeuf bourguignon for €11.50.

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In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as "troglodytes," used as homes, hotels, restaurants, museums, wineries, farms silkworms, mushrooms, snails and even a disco and a zoo.

Kirsten Dirksen: Cave House in Loire Is Charming Bioclimatic Troglodyte Home (VIDEO)

Saumur in the heart of the Loire Valley and its vineyards is within easy distance of the Channel ports.

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