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Biking the Loire: 5 day trips from Tours

Saumur, Villandry, Chinon, Chenonceau and more.

It took us more than an hour to get out of Saumur, a town of 26,000 along the Loire River in France.

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Biking the Loire: Why staying in one town was the perfect choice for us

A different way to tackle Eurovelo 6.

Our final night in Tours: Leftovers from our many market stops.

On this bike trip to Europe, we decided to try something different: Rather than biking from point to point along a castle-laden section of Eurovelo 6 in France, we would base ourselves in one town and do day trips.

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