Chenonceau

We visited Chenonceau on Monday 10 April, and it was spectacular. There were many amazing tapestries and rooms to see. It was just wonderful.

The gardens were beautiful too. We also went on a boat ride from Chossoix to view the castle from the river.

Castles.....day 1

We came to Tours to see castles and we certainly have seen some amazing chateaux! On our first day we headed to Amboise. It is a lovely town and as the weather was lovely we wandered through the market and then had a look at the outside of the castle and we also checked out where Leonardo Da Vinci had stayed.

We then headed to Blois, which was an amazing chateau. There were many rooms to see and so much history.

Saint Leon sur Vezere, La Roque Saint Christophe and Lascaux 2

On Friday, 7 April, we had another busy day. First we enjoyed the lovely sunshine and had coffee at Saint Leon sur Vezere. It was another gorgeous village.

We then headed to La Roque Saint Christophe which are trogolyte houses that were built into the rocks. Firstly they were used to defend the river from the Vikings and other invaders and then they were lived in till the 16th century. The following two photos are of models of how these villages would have looked!

Our last adventure in the Dordogne took us to Lascaux and we went down into a full scale model of the famous rock paintings that were found here years ago. Sadly the originals have been damaged and you can no longer view them but the copies were amazing. It is hard to imagine prehistoric man going into such dark caves to paint pictures of horses and other animals. You can see some of the images on the Lascaux website.

On Saturday we packed up our apartment, went wandering in the Sarlat market again and had a delicious coffee and cake at our favourite patisserie. We then took Penny and John back to Bordeaux for their flight and we headed on to Tours for the next part of our trip.