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France On Two Wheels

by Adam Ruck

France On Two Wheels

CONTENTS

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Route 1
    Lake Geneva to Caen
    • Dinner with Marc Meneau
    • Guédelon
  • Route 2
    Massif Central (Loire 1)
    • The serial killer hoteliers
    • Troisgros
    • His finest hour
  • Route 3
    La Bastide to Arcachon
    • Roquefort
    • Yquem
  • Route 4
    Biarritz to La Charité-sur-Loire
    • A pelota champion
    • Aymeric Picaud – the pilgrim’s guide
  • Route 5
    Moulins to St-Brévin (Loire 2)
    • Hornblower on the Loire
    • Turner’s Loire
  • Route 6
    Paris to Avignon
    • The recipe road
    • Wine tasting in Tain L’Hermitage
  • Alsace Tour
  • Corsica
  • Brittany Tour
  • St Moritz on two wheels (and the train)
  • The Western Front
  • Ridgeway Rides
  • Travel Notes, Updates, Feedback
  • Hotel Archive
  • Contact Adam
  • Adam’s Blog
    • All Blog Posts
    • Skiing Posts

Category Archives: France

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Golf and covid: the new abnormal

Posted on May 10, 2020 by adamruck

At least the lockdown spared us the torture of golf. Tasting an unfamiliar hint of serenity in the mixed salad of my mood, I can only attribute it to an absence of missed tiddlers and sliced drives onto the railway … Continue reading →

Posted in France, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, corona virus, covid, France, Golf

On the George Sand trail

Posted on February 6, 2020 by adamruck

This morning’s Radio 4 Lord Bragg show about George Sand took me back to my first university year, when someone on my staircase had a sophisticated American girlfriend with a drawl that might have been Charleston, Boston or Vivien Leigh … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Adam Ruck, George Sand, In Our Time, La Mare au Diable, Nohant, Nohant Vic, radio 4

Play it again George

Posted on February 19, 2017 by adamruck

  ‘Me te se nous vous …. le la les ….. lui leur … y en!’ I found myself chanting along with Hugh Schofield yesterday morning during From Our Own Correspondent.  His dispatch was a nostalgic item in memory of … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Adam Ruck, French teaching, From Our Own Correspondent, george bird, Hugh Schofield, linguaphone

Save La Grave – join the crowd

Posted on September 27, 2016 by adamruck

The future of the off-piste resort of La Grave is once again in doubt, as it has been for much of its forty year existence.  The operating contract for its lifts – there are two of them: a slow two-stage … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Skiing | Tagged Adam Ruck, France, La Grave, off-piste skiing, Skiing

Tour de Bretagne

Posted on May 7, 2016 by adamruck

Sorry, I’ve moved this post to another page: see Brittany Tour   … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, French hotels | Tagged Adam Ruck, Brittany, Brittany Ferries, France cycling holidays, Logis hotels

’ere ouigo – skiing the Disney way

Posted on December 17, 2015 by adamruck

  A new route to the French Alps – via le Petit Prince and the Magic Kingdom.   I’m sure it’s not new, but it’s new to me and I’m quite excited about it. Rather late in the day,  via facebook, … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Skiing | Tagged Adam Ruck, France, ouigo, ski, train

Brittany at half term: le golf de Morbihan

Posted on October 29, 2015 by adamruck

  Two weeks for half term in late October is a long haul for parents, especially those abandoned by their wives and daughters (in Venice for a weekend of bellinis and vaporetti).  My godson’s father suggested a ‘get into golf’ … Continue reading →

Posted in France, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Brittany, Brittany Ferries, France, Golf, Lorient, Omaha Beach, Rhuys Kerver

Gemma Bovery – low expectation exceeded

Posted on August 26, 2015 by adamruck

I was provoked to go and see the film of Gemma Bovery – a long running Guardian strip cartoon from the 1990s that made fun of English expats in France in the framework of a Madame Bovary storyline – by … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Adam Ruck, Flaubert, Front Row, Gemma Bovery, Madame Bovary, Posy Simmonds

On the trail of Madame Bovary

Posted on August 20, 2015 by adamruck

Pig is on the 13 euro lunch menu at Le Bovary in the small village of Ry, near Rouen.   Nothing fancy – museau vinaigrette (cheek), plat du jour (more pork), plateau de fromages. This last offering fulfils expectation: a chalky … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Adam Ruck, Gemma Bovery, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Normandy, Ry

Not so sure about snowsure

Posted on February 6, 2015 by adamruck

“Any chance you can supply a picture?”  Cue small earthquake in south west Oxfordshire.  The filing system is comprehensively rummaged, turned upside down and shaken.  Could have sworn I saw it the other day …. but where? As usual the … Continue reading →

Posted in Austria, France, Skiing, Switzerland | Tagged Adam Ruck, Chamonix, Gargellen, Grimentz, Murren, Skiing, snowsure resorts, st anton, Val d'Anniviers

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