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From exquisite chateaux to ‘the most bourgeois city in France’, nothing about this department is mundane

Our story begins over 200 million years ago. The secret to the world's finest Sauvignon Blanc lies in the soils of France's Loire Valley. On a geological level, the area was part of the Paris Basin, a Triassic era seabed that encompassed not only the Central Loire but the Champagne region, reaching up as far as the famous chalky cliffs of Southern England. It is this chalky limestone that gives the valley's Sauvignon Blancs their mineral character. You can taste the land, what the French call 'gout de terroir', and that is perhaps the greatest joy of wine travel. Sancerre and Pouilly-Sur-Loir...

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius was a wealthy businessman and paid for the publication of his Theatrum out of his own pocket, but he was not a printer and had to employ others to print it for him. Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens , Museum Plantin-Moretus via Wikimedia Commons A man who printed, not the first 1570 editions, but the important expanded 1579 Latin edition, with its bibliography ( Catalogus Auctorum), index ( Index Tabularum), the maps with text on the back, followed by a register of place names in ancient times ( Nomenclator), and who also played a major role in marketin...