After some wonderful time in Paris, a working train is found to join with special friends in Pézenas....pictures tell it all!
Drop in on a Molière play...
Enjoy a sweet afterwards...now that is what I call a display!
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
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Saturday, 11 June 2016
PARIS IN THE SUN....
Nothing better than this city! Add the opera, fabulous food, sun and joy!
Have to mention I got a living petite crab with my dinner....can you see him?
It is all perfection!
Oh yes....the games are ON!
Friday, 10 June 2016
MAY THE SOUNDS OF EXTRAORDINARY PIANOS IN FRANCE BRING CALM!
Hundreds of trains cancelled in France today! Thought the best thing would be to share all the extraordinary pianos I have seen on my trip to France....
Photographs were not allowed in Ravel's home.....Heard his piano not only played and can attest to its maker as above...
Thursday, 9 June 2016
A PERFECT DAY IN THE LOIRE...
Have loved every sunny moment....now hope for trains to run to Paris and beyond!
You did not need a fire with this weather! This one would last for some time....
A creative artistic treatment in the chapel at Chamount-sur-Loire...
Oh the light in the Loire.....
The perfect irrigation use for all the wine bottles some may have emptied!
SAVED THE PLUS PETIT FOR THE LAST....
Château de Troussay is in the heart of the Loire Valley and Sologne vineyards and an architectural gem of the fifteenth to nineteenth century....charming!
The smallest château of the Loire.....
Truly my most treasured photograph that says everything about the magnificance of this part of France!
A few treasures as seen in the petit château...
Taken for a treasured friend who takes his violin and returns to Australia....
This is some door leading into the chapel which is the size of a postage stamp...
UNESCO SITE FOR BOTH HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN....
Few visit Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire...pity! The history here dates back to the year one thousand! DIzzying politics! Carherine de Medici bought the Château which was very profitable given the toll on the Loire and farming plots. When she had her dust up with Diane de Poitiers she moved her out of Chenonceau and gave Diane this Château. DIane's first decorating move was to install the machicolated rampart walks of the tower.
It is here in these massive gardens that the International Garden Festival is held at this UNESCO site.
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Photos are endless but this was truly outstanding and appreciate why this is the foremost Centre for Art and Nature devoted entirely to the relationship between nature, artistic creation and the impact on landscape design.
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
VILLANDRY UNDER WATER......NOW TO LEONARDO'S HOME!
Now you might think the flooding fact would be posted on Villandry's website but instead it showed open. Did not take a genius to see that River Cher had done immense damage given all the road closures..lots of flooding here!
Lost count of the deviations trying to get to Villandry and the GPS had a breakdown!
Back to Amboise to appreciate another journey; that of Leonardo da Vinci who at 64 crossed the alps on the back of a mule to settle at Château du Clos Lucé a mere 400 metres from Château Royal d'Amboise where he lived the last creative three years of his life.
Previously Clos Lucé was a royal residence for two hundred years used by the Kings of France after it was built in 1471.
Took a climb up the watchtower -- a reminder that this was once a fortified residence.
Lovely dining room....with endless produce from his garden.
In the distance as viewed from the dining room is Château Royal d'Amboise
Tributes to his inventions everywhere but had to include the double hull for ships......bit of irony here!
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