Today mostly a driving day. We got out for a walk around Chatenay in the morning, and then drove drove drove across and up through the middle of France, covered about 500km I think, mostly on the peage so flying along.
In the late afternoon, around 6pm we reached our next B and B. This one is in the centre of a small town called Loches, right in the heart of the Loire Valley. If Chatenay was beautiful, this place is AMAZING. 16th century houses beside the medieval (13th century) heart of the village. A chateau about 300m from our front door, along with its dongon (dungeon), church, and 2km stone wall, complete with one huge stone gate, about 200m up the road from our place. Our rooms were accessed by a 600 year old wooden staircase, and gave a definite feel of what it must have been like to live back in those days (except with plumbing, thank goodness!) Our host, Claude, is a lovely man, very French but with perfect English, and an extremely expressive tipped eyebrow, which he used at just about everything we said - ‘You have four daughters?” “You are going to see three chateaux in one day?” “You have come all the way from from New Zealand and are going to spend just one day in the Loire Valley?” etc etc.
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| Breakfast at Chatenay |
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| Family portrait |
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| Chicken house, Chatenay |
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| Jessa feeding sheep |
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| Front door of our house, Loches |
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| Street outside our house, Loches |
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| Loches street |
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| View from our window, Loches |
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| The dungeon at Loches |
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