Amboise

Amboise Chateau

This little fella was asleep in the van next to us

Clos de Luce (Leonarda Da Vinci lived and dies here)

The Chateau from the high street below

Cheverny

This is the only photo we could get (from the front gates)

Just me, minding my own, cycling along......

It's all about the grapes!

Fancy living here?

Chambord

What a place !

We spent most of today wandering around the Chateaux.  The scale of this place is quite astounding.  On the roof top there are so many little 'nooks and crannies'

Oh, and you might just spot Grahame 'fooning' in one or two piccies !

Then off for another 'cycle'......

around the Chateaux park before driving to our next night stop in Huisseau Sur Cosson.....

we were the only campervan on site (which is right in the middle of the village).  On our way to the site we went shopping in the local Intermarchè and somehow managed to spend over an hour and a half in there! ( I mean, really!  how did that happen?).

Off to bed now, Bonsoir :)

Positioning (and fasting)

On a fasting day today so not much activity, we positioned to Montlivault ready for the next day and stayed overnight in an Aire next to a school so predictably busy at school drop off and pickup times.  First thing to check out was the location of the Boulangerie! (see photo of me the following morning)

Meung Sur Loire day two

We woke up to a blue sky and some drum and bass music coming from somewhere??

Had our first (of many!) French style breakfast with fresh baguette and coffee, then went for a 20 mile velo ride including stumbling across outdoor rave taking place in the woods!  Loads of French Hippy's all steamed up on acid and cider!  In the middle of the wood was the loudest music I have ever heard!  It was BANGING !!

Anyway, the ride was through beautiful and BIG scenery, vineyards,orchards,and cereal crop's for miles.....with idyllic little villages in between.

Meung Sur Loire

Pronounced 'Mas sur Loire' (I had to ask about that one!).  A wet day today, just like home!  Caught up on general domestic stuff and went for a stroll around the town.  The photo below is the view from our van with 'Le Chateau' in the middle (blue tarpaulin at the moment)

France 'proper'

Well then, here we at last!

The crossing took 4 hours and we did not get much sleep on the 'lounge seats'

We got off the ferry, drove about 500 metres or so around the corner and pulled into the Dieppe 'Aire' and went straight to sleep!

A few hours later we did a little food shopping in Carrefour at a small town nearby (Offranville), fuelled up with 71 litres of diesel (£1.21/ltr) and set off for Sully Sur Loire, however due to traffic and road closures we didn't get that far and pulled into and Aire in Meung Sur Loire at 7:30 pm.  Eat, drink, sleep!