The Loire Valley and especially Blois
We have passed these before on Itinerary n° 8 of the Châteaux au vélo bike path near Huisseau-sur-Cosson but I didn’t realise they were for holiday rent. You can find them on www.lesroulottes.fr if you’re interested! Very handy to Château de Chambord. Nous sommes déjà passé devant ces roulottes en empruntant l’itinéraire n° 8 des Châteaux à vélo …
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This is my favourite view of Blois and until a couple of days ago, I used it as my header. The spires on the left are the church of Saint Nicolas, with Blois Royal Castle and Tour du Foix in the middle of the photo and the Loire in the foreground. For other contributions to …
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After our picnic on the cycle path along the Loire near Muides last night I wanted to visit the church whose spire you can see in the middle of the photo. .Fortunately it is completely covered in scaffolding so the photo will be for another time. Après notre pique-nique hier soir sur la piste cyclable …
Continue reading “A Spiral and a Spire – Un spirale et une flèche”
When we reached the cycle path along the Loire near Saint Claude de Diray today we were met by this huge harvester. You can imagine the dust! You can just see the Loire on the left. On arrivant à la piste cyclable sur la Loire à côté de Saint Claude de Diray aujourd’hui cette énorme …
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I’ve been back in Blois since Sunday but it’s taken me three days to take a photo of Blois and the Loire! Je suis rentrée à Blois dimanche mais il m’a fallu trois jours pour prendre un photo de Blois et la Loire !
Hollyhocks are among those wonderful species of flowers that grow whether it rains or not and if you don’t cut off the dead flowers too soon, they are self-seeding. The origin of the word hollyhock is mid-13c., holihoc, probably from holi “holy” + hokke “mallow,” from Old English hocc, a word of unknown origin. Another early …
While we were on holidays in Germany, I saw an artichoke flower for the first time. Imagine my delight when I came back to find one in my own vegetable patch! A neighbour gave us a plant last year. Pendant que nous étions en Allemagne j’ai vu une fleur d’artichaut pour la première fois. Imaginez …
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We thought it was fitting to finish our holiday in Germany with a stopover in the French mediaeval town of Troyes in Champagne which does not have painted façaddes but does have some beautifully renovated half-timbered buildings. Nous avons cru bon de terminer nos vacances en Allemagne avec un arrêt dans la ville médiévale française de Troyes …
We ended our last ride in Germany in torrential rain, fortunately only for the last four kilometers. Back to France tomorrow. Nous avons terminé notre dernière virée en vélo en Allemagne sous une pluie torrentielle. Heureusement, il ne restait plus que quatre kilomètres. Demain nous serons de retour en France.
As soon as I saw these traditional boats on the Neckar in Tübingen I thought of gondolas. Sure enough, the tourist brochure refers to them as such. They, too, are punts. Dès que j’ai vu ces bateaux traditionnels sur le Neckar à Tübingen j’ai pensé aux gondoles. Effectivement, c’est comme cela qu’on les décrit dans …
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