De Rosny Tours

... I know I'll wonder how I did so much living in so little time. <br><br> Something special happens to an estate that's been around for almost 250 years. It starts to take on it's own personality, and through that it attracts the type of people that would make what it is that much better. My hosts at La Meslerie treat the people that visit with such undying grace and character that it's easy to chock it up to some mystical ...

... that straddles the River Cher and is surrounded by gardens which even though its late October are still stunning. Inside over 3 floors we take in the places beauty - all of the rooms werer specatuarly painted withj deep blues, green and gold finishes, fine tapestries hang down the ceilings, large oil paintings litter the walls, period furniture gives us an insight into the life of its inhabitants over the years. This chateau wowed us!<br>

... another lot of her famous hamburgers - fine grade meat patties on a french bagette loaded with stinky camembret (yum), tomato, spanish onion and lettuce and of course washed down with a glass or two of Rose - good work! After dinner we went out exploring. A lovely little town of around 10,000 with its chateau on the hill its main attraction. We had read it was best from the outside and so we obliged.<br ...

... levels. Although, I have to say, it wasn't exactly what I had expected, there were several more explosions than I had pictured (between food grade hoses, tractor tires, and tractor engines it was quite a few mind you), and I never really pictured myself drinking Calvados at 7 a.m. with a team of transient Bulgarian grape harvesters. But after having survived through the process, it ...

... I will have for many years to come. I have to say that having this experience at the beginning of this journey has been exactly what someone who is going into the great unknown would want. <br><br> During the last of my time here, we will obviously finish up pressing the rest of the grapes that we are able to get this season, but I'd also like to take as much time as I can to visit some of the historic ...

I took a day trip into Tours, which is the biggest city around here. It's a pretty amazing places, I still have a lot of exploring to do here yet, but I wanted to post some pictures of my first trip that I took into Tour alone.<br><br>Enjoy<br>

... them extra shiny. They had the most unique taste. The flavor used was a mulberry flower and they had the consistency of a cough drop but were much sweeter and did not taste medicinal at all. The candy maker demonstrated a few other specialties and we got to taste everything. All of the tools he used were over 200 years old! The exact same ones that the original candy makers used. Quite fascinating (and quite expensive!). That night a few of us walked ...

... save me having to find an internet cafe and pay as its quite expensive and as I still have 7 weeks to go it makes sense. There is one I can pick up in Paris that is going for under 300euro and has an English QWERTY keyboard, so hopefully not many people bid on it. Helios makes lunch and then I head off on my own to the old part of town and sit by the river contemplating. I think when I return I wil definately ...

Yesterday after leaving Normandy we decided to stop in Tours and visit the chateaus that are around here. Today we went to the chateau de chenanceau! A huge castle built across a river in the Louire Valley. We are staying in Tours until Sunday to get some much needed rest and then we are off to San Sebastian in Espana! I am very excited to get to Spain; the French people are a little odd to put it mildly. I would also suggest learning French before actually goin to France! Grant

... mõned tudengid olid välja protestima tulnud ning käisime põgusalt tutvumas botaanikaaiaga, kus elutsesid kängurud, paabulinnud ja muud putukad. Kuna tegemist oli esmaspäeva hommikuga, siis oli suurem osa poode Prantsusmaa kombe kohaselt kinni. Nimelt laupäeval töötamise eest lubavad nad endale puhkust hoopis esmaspäeva hommikul või koguni tervel päeval. Seega võib tavaliselt arvestada, et poed avatakse nädala esimesel päeval kell 10 või kell 14.