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We recently spent a long weekend in Angers, a lovely small city in the Loire Valley that we thought might be an interesting plac...

I’ve become so accustomed to the dingy grey interiors of most European churches that I'm always surprised by the amount of color that w...

Before moving to France I ran my own historic preservation business. To make ends meet I took lots of different jobs: historic resea...

People often ask us why we moved to France. And for me the answer is, "Because of the history."  Here,  no matter where you go,  ...

To wrap up this series on fortified mills, I’d like to show you four more examples, each of which is architecturally unique or historic...

The watermill of La Salle is one of the least well-known, yet most impressive, of the fortified mills in the Entre-Deux-Mers region. B...

Happy 2014 to all of you!  We're back in Bordeaux after visiting the States for a few weeks and I’m ready to start the second year o...