Domaine Sauvète produces delicious organic wine in Monthou sur Cher. 10 hectares of the wineyard are harvested by hand. The vintner and his familly live in a small house looking over the hills.
Loire Valley
Famous for its great wines and its beautiful age old castles, the Loire Valley distills a lazy feeling along its banks.
This is a real castle, built in the XVth century, like the one you see in movies, except, that it's real. So real that it inspired Charles Perault when he wrote his novel "the sleeping beauty".
Continue reading Château d'Ussé.
This bridge was built in 1849. With its towers and medieval architecture, it tries as much as possible to look like the château de Langeais. Through times, It has been bombed and mined but it is still standing there, proud and happy, with its wet feet.
Château de Langeais was built in the second half of the 15th century by Louis XI. One half of it was a fortress, built to stand any war, which it did with success. The other half was more for lounging and realaxing with big fire places and giant LCD screens.
I'm not too sure about the screens and the lounging.
On the river bank of the Loire, a house built with the tender and white traditional stones, tuffeau.
Chinon lays along the river Vienne. Its old Castle used to be the place to be, People like the giant Garagantua, Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, and some kings, English or French went there at one time or an other. From the main dungeon, one sees the black slated roofs of the village below, like hundred of ravens.
Richelieu, the Red Eminence, was a bishop, a cardinal and a minister. He was also a someone with a lot of ideas, some good, some terrible. This is what you get when you have so much power in your hands. He was sure he knew what the ideal city should be. It is called Richelieu and lays behind these gates. If you want to make your own opinion you'll have to travel to the Loire Valley.
People call it a castle - Le château d'Azay le Rideau - I call it a jewel - Un bijou.
I didn't dare checking where this bridge was going to. It was in Tours. It was the Loire Valley. That much I knew. But what was on the other side of the river was another story. Marin County ? No, because, it would mean this was the Golden Gate Bridge. Although with the fog...
Drop your bike in the grass, sit on the grass, open a bottle of Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil, spread rillettes on a baguette, ad some little pickle. Eat. Enjoy.
The water mill is still used to make flour.
