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Europe: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice - Telegraph

Published on 07 June 2011

"A friend and I took a one-week, self-guided cycling holiday in the Loire Valley, collecting our hire bikes in Nantes and returning them in Orléans. Everybody said that if we just cycled along the Loire we wouldn't see anything, but that was our favourite part of the whole trip. "

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