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If the French can do it, so can I!
... sur-Loire. Running along the river side was a lovely area which invited camping. But there was this sign which said no camping cars between 1900 and 0900. Spoilsports! I bet the French wouldn't have obeyed it. Never mind! We found a car park in the centre of town in front of the big church. Food consumed and then to bed. Noisy, because of the lorries charging through the town centre but fab fun!
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Chateau de Fontainebleau
We left Troyes early as we didn't want to pay for a carpark in the town, or the 12Euro breakfast...
We found a bar opening near Square du 8 mai 1945 on the way out of town and went in a grabbed possibly the best coffee we'd had since Milan. Then off again. A quick stop at Montereau for some lunch goods and batteries and then off up the road to Fontainebleau. There is supposed to be a nice Chateau here... Strewth, you can ...
A visit to a cycling mecca
... the Tour de France (TdF) from day six onwards. We've so far enjoyed each stage of Le Tour (usually just the last hour or so) from the comfort of our hotel room or a local bar. It's weird being able to watch the race in the late afternoon rather than in the middle of the night. It's much easier to stay awake. We can also see instantly how we are fairing in the SBS Fantasy Tour league (a competition that SBS runs during the TdF) and I'm ...
La Fabuloserie: you will never be the same...
... 40 years making mechanical sculptures from bits of old tins and wire: animals, with moving legs, boys riding bikes, aeroplanes circling overhead on a carousel, and a man drinking who spits water out at unsuspecting passers-by!
All of this has been dissembled and reassembled bit by bit in the garden here.
Link to a video of ...
A house, a cyclops and the arm of Saint Blaise
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Cocteau also decorated the interior of a small twelfth century chapel in the town, La Chapelle de Saint Blaise des Simples.
Les Simples are the medicinal herbs grown around the chapel, a vestige of the hospice for the sick that was built here in 1136.
Saint Blaise apparently specialised in ...