Interesting that many places in France don't have wash cloths and have beautiful towels that are dried outside and smell good, but are very rough. I think they are made that way on purpose. The towels are actually very nice and feel good as you dry off. At this place we have a top sheet, in Paris we had the more traditional German /Austrian/Swiss duvet with no top sheet. I like that!
Here is our breakfast room...
Today we visited a very famous Chataux, the most visited in this area, Chennonceau. It was very beautiful! We enjoyed the gardens and took a tour inside.
We were waiting for our crepe....
This is where Leonardo Di Vinci lived the last three years of his life. We took a tour and learned about all his inventions and his life. This was also the guesthouse of the Chataux up on the hill behind it, Amboise.
Amboise Chataux
There are roses all over France and most of them smell great!
After we left Di Vinci's house there were tons of cars driving the narrow roads all honking their horns, it was a wedding procession. They drove all over the village and then again and again. I told Monte to join in, but he wouldn't. I thought it would be fun!
This is Montrichard, a chateaux in ruin.
We saw a lot today even with light rain. We walked to Chennonceau and it was dry, got into the castle and it rained, came out and it stopped. Hope our luck continues!
We had a great dinner tonight recommended by our host. It was so nice Monte and Paige would not let me take pictures, but the really weird thing about it was that there were paintings on the wall that looked like the south west and modern sculptures plus 1970's rock and roll in the background with about 6 songs that played over and over!
Paige has decided to try wine on this trip. She has had a glass each night with dinner. There have been varying opinions about the wine, but tonight she loved it. We asked our waitress what kind of wine it was and she told us in one long French sentence that gave us no clue what it was! Here wines are named by their vineyard not by the kind of grape.
The food was wonderful! We had an aperitif, a rabbit appetizer, a glass of white, dry wine, cod fish, dessert of carmel apple something. Sorry...no pictures....well just a couple I took quick!
Monte takes any chance he can to drop a business card (as usual) and he tried to explain to our waiter that he sold Esspresso machines in the US. The waiter gave us a look that we interpreted as he understood that Monte owned an Esspresso company! We knew we couldn't try to converse enough to correct that.
Interesting observations: the euro only comes in paper from a €5 and up denominations. Under €5 are only coins. The coins come in small .5 .10 etc. but they also have a €1 and €2 coin.
There are no screens on the windows and everyone leaves their windows open all the time, but very few bugs around, but for some reason we always get the ONE fly that buzzes around the restaurant.
We noticed several times in these little French villages that friends on the street will stop and talk to someone while they are in their house at the window. The windows are tall and narrow coming at waist level so when the window is open it is like the people are standing face to face talking since there are no screens.
We LOVE France!
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