The Loire and city of Blois
The Loire River is the longest river in France, covering more than 1,000 km from its source in the Massif Central to its mouth in the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic Ocean. The main towns are Nevers, Orleans, Blois, Tours and Nantes. It is famous for its châteaux, particularly Chenonceau, Chambord, Chaumont and Cheverny, and its vineyards. The Loire Valley, a World Heritage Site, spanning about 300 km, is located in the middle stretch, 2 to 3 hours south of Paris.
Blois, where I live, is a town of 50,000 people ideally located for visiting the area. Although much was destroyed during the war, it still has some lovely old streets winding up the steep banks of the Loire. It was once the centre of the French Renaissance with a prestigious castle. Louis XII, king of France in 1498, was born there in 1462. One of its citizens, Denis Papin, invented the steam engine in 1647 and the illusionist Louis-Eugène Roubert-Houdin, born in 1805, is celebrated in the “House of Magic” just opposite the castle.
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I’m very pleased to announce that we will soon have a fiber connection for our Internet and will be able to remove the television antenna which I feel somewhat mars the beauty of our house and weathervane. Not that we have a TV.
Good view of the house!
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That will be fantastic. I hope the process is more efficient than our National Broadband installations.
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Being a bit simple on these things, is this for Fr. TV and the Internet ?
@William – Thank you
@Helen – I’ve heard about them!
@Lesley – Having fibre means TV and the Internet. Because of where we live, the only TV is normal French TV which seriously isn’t worth the trouble. At present, we can’t even watching streamed films on the Internet. All the Internet systems here include TV only we are the furthest away from an antenna that you can be so can’t get TV. Today we booked our appointment to be connected to fibre. It doesn’t cost any more than our current subscription to Orange and my allowance on my iPhone will increase from 3 GB to 30 GB at the same time. It’s going to take 3 hours for them to get everything set up apparently!