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Villandry
... light and airy, full of colour. The children's bedrooms on the top floor were just gorgeous, with a collection of old toys on display. And the gardens...even at the end of summer and being readied for the cold season, they were still glorious. We spent the whole afternoon ...
Market Day in St Aignan
... is ready and go with him, he speaks and understands French the best of the 3 of us. However he has to consider things so long that I end up just "having a go". Is such fun, and I must say all the French people I have dealt with have been ever so kind and helpful. I buy fruit (pommes, raisins, poires, fraise & nectarines) and vegetables (pommes de terre, carotte, oignon, brocoli) then we join the long queue ...
Day 5 - Amboise
... Anyway we dubbed it the Bullens Animal World of Amboise, for those who may remember that fine establishment. Tatty, dated and so therefore rather amusing. A feature were the "games of olden times" - quoits, vertical maze, skittles, pendulum swing, tyre swing. There was also an audio visual presentation which consisted of a few plastic chairs in room facing a little tv, and rather a lot of mice poo on the floor, we gave that a ...
Day 4 - Le Plus Beau Villages en France
... avec socks) who was vigorously sweeping the steps as we left and called out a cheery "au revoir, merci" as we left, no doubt happy to receive our few euro towards the cause. A quick picnic lunch in a park in Loche, too cold and windy to linger long. Between showers we visited the ruins of a chateau in Le Grand Pressigny with a very modern, but very French museum built in amongst it. Looking down a well we could see our reflection in a tiny square of ...
Day 3 - Chateaux Chaumont and Chambord
... Crossed the river via the old bridge for photos from the other side of town, then back to climb the steep streets to the church overlooking the town. A bronze statue of Joan of Arc does the same. Time to move on, this time to Chateau Chambord - a public chateau, and HUGE! If is hard to describe the sheer magnificence of the place, the amount of workmanship, the skill of the architects and builders. And the ...
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