Seeing the Chateaus of France.

We woke up in our hotel room in Tours and went downstairs for breakfast. A man named Pascal and his partner ran the hotel and Pascal were serving breakfast. He was very nice and served us incredible hot chocolate, croissants, baguette, Nutella, and jam. We ate quickly then got in a cab to the Tourist Office in Tours. From the Tourist Office, we took the van to start our tour of the Chateaus of France.

This is Clos Luce, the Chateau where Leonardo da Vinci died. It has many of his incredible inventions inside of it.
This was his workshop where he started his paintings, sketches, and designs for his inventions.


This is a lifesize model of his most famous painting "the Mona Lisa".
The is Chateau Chenonceau, considered the most beautiful Chateaus in all of France.

Baba in front of a house at Chateau Chenonceau.


The walkway to Chateau Chenonceau

This is a building in front of the Tintin Chateau, Chateau Cheverny.
The same family has lived at this Chateau for 700 years, and they use these dogs for hunting game in their forest.


 Chateau Cheverny
This is a picture from Tintin of Chateau Cheverny. as you can see, the Chateau in Tintin is based o Chateau Cheverny.
Chateau Chambord

Strange cubelike trees at Chateau Chambord


This is my dinner of pig cheek risotto.

Comments

  1. KirstenApril 18, 2017 at 7:18 AM

    Charlie - I would be hungry after that tour as well. Beautiful photos and thank you for pointing out the highlights!

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownApril 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM

    Charlie:
    Been enjoying the blog! Great pictures and lots of details about food - our favorite thing to think/read about. E&I had creme brûlée at lunch yesterday to honor you & Babs ;).
    What are you liking about the England & France? How would you compare them? London & Paris as major international cities?
    Looking forward to the next entry. Bises,
    D

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. UnknownApril 18, 2017 at 8:19 AM

      Charlie, You are bringing back all kinds of great memories-- we did a similar trip with the boys a few years ago. I love seeing your pics and am v. impressed with just how much the two of you are doing. Wow! xoxoxo Amelia

      Delete
  3. UnknownApril 18, 2017 at 9:43 AM

    Nice work Charles! As Amelia said, we were roaming those same byways maybe 5 or 6 years ago and it definitely brings back great memories. We had thought about taking the overnight boat to St. Malo, but trained it from London to Paris instead, and drove down through the Loire from there. Those are some pretty impressive houses I have to say... I shoulda been pre-revolutionary French royalty I tell ya, but I swear we have better patisserie now if it's any consolation...

    ReplyDelete
  4. MOMApril 18, 2017 at 10:46 AM

    (Mom here, from Max's computer) I'm sorry to say that pig cheek risotto sounded more delicious than it looks! I love how adventurous you are with food these days. Keep enjoying!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. MomApril 18, 2017 at 10:53 AM

      BTW, I love the Tintin image next to your photo of the actual chateaux. I also love the image of all of those lazing dogs -- after the momentary startle of thinking that they were all dead, I couldn't help but laugh outloud (at them, at myself).

      Delete
  5. RogerApril 18, 2017 at 10:46 PM

    Charlie, you say that Chateau Cheverny has been in the same family for seven hundred years. Gee, they must be pretty old. Just kidding. You also say they have dogs that hunt game in their forest. It must be nice to have your own private forest. Even Robin Hood had to share Sherwood Forest with the Sheriff of Nottingham. I guess the way you hold onto a place like Chateau Cheverny for 700 years is by going with the world's flow. In the 16th century, for example, the family probably owned a fleet of privateers that preyed upon British shipping. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries they made uniforms and maps for Napoleon and his soldiers. In the mid-19th century it was railroads, and, in the 20th, Middle Eastern oil and Renault automobiles. Today the lady of the house probably has her own software company, and her husband, well--what else?--he's living off his investment in "Hamilton."

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Solar Powered

Image
In our house, we recently installed solar panels to reduce our carbon emissions and also save about 45% of our annual costs for our house’s electricity. My Dad wrote a few questions for me to answer that would attempt to persuade much more people to add solar panels to their own houses, and also to try and persuade others to add them to their own houses. Why does solar work for our house? Solar works for our house because we have multiple roof areas mostly south facing that have sufficient sunlight to make a good amount of electricity to be worth the money that they cost. What is the design? There are 19 panels on the one side of the roof and 5 on the other side of the roof above Mom, and Dad’s bedroom How much does it cost? It costs $20,000  when they are installed, but nothing every year afterward. How much electricity will it produce? Our solar panels will produce about 5946 kWh every year for 25 years. What other financial benefits? We will save ...
Read more

Day #1 in London

Image
My grandmother and I arrived at Heathrow in London at about 10:30 AM local time, and we were extremely tired. I had only got about an hour or two of sleep on the plane over the Atlantic ocean. We walked to the taxi area and got into a cab. The UK taxis are black and look old, on the inside, there is quite a large space, and three seats along the back of the car. There is no trunk in the UK taxis so we had lots of extra space inside the taxi. Even with the taxis old look, it had an intercom for talking to the driver and also an AC and window button. When we arrived at our hotel we put our bags down and immediately took a two-hour long nap before leaving for lunch. We ate lunch at the ale and pie restaurant below our hotel. I ordered an incredible beef burger, and Baba ordered a steak and blue cheese pie. After lunch, we walked about five minutes to big ben. The Big Ben This is a picture of the London eye. We decided to go on the London eye on our last day in ...
Read more