I enjoyed very much this excursion along the Loire: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the bike paths along the Loire river ( 900 kilometers of bike paths, the touristic guide Simon Jeannet and the discovery of Amboise, Eugénie and Vincent and their two daughters-the sabbatical year riding bicycles through France-, the nurse Sonia-17 kilometers, 50 minutes every day from Angers to her home in a little village), the tuffeau quarries ( the visit of the tuffeau carries used as cellars near Saumur, Pascal and Laurent and exploration of the abandoned quarries), the bicycle collectors Robin Renard and Alain Cuvier (the the velocipedes , the penny-farthings and the hirondelle bikes, the bike tour in old fashion dresses), the priest Paul (the mass,the blessing of the bicycles, the training for the Championnat cycliste de France du clergé with his friends Olivier and the father Robert), Philomène La Lay (the Loire from the source the Ocean-1.000 km, the ecological approach, the picking of edible plants such as nettles, the recollecting of plastic waste), the wild species in the Loire ( the fishermen Hervé and Franck using pedalo-kayak, the search for the catfish, the return of the beavers since 1976, François Souchard and his camera trap) and the food-bikes of Nantes ( Marie-Astride and the selling of waffles along the Erdre river, the knife gringer Méleusine, "The Nomad periskop"-Méleusine and Ludovic taking pictures and recording sounds of the Loire landscapes).
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaèl with the bike guide Vincent Guillebault (Saumur, the Château de la Moth-Chandeniers), with the landscaper Arnauld Delacroix (the restoration of the castle and the boat tour), with Sylvie Perru (Les Pommes tapées) , with Aline, Jacques and Valentin Bru at Houssaye ( the antique car collection, the green house), with Anaëlle Marot and Thomas Poirier at Ingrandes, with Morgane Tanguy-La Ferme du Contrevent-, with the chef Séverine Figuls, with the confectioner Stéphane Le Guiriec, with Coline Billon at Nantes and the fishermen Jean-Michel Paulin and Thierry Avery at the fishery of Couëron; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.