Tag: val de loire
Domaine des Bidaudieres, Vouvray
If you have been following our trip to the Val de Loire, and our story about finding the chateau we booked (click here to read), this is the second place where we ended up. Because we cannot extend our unplanned stay at Chateau des Arpentis (click here to see it), the owner, Sylvie offered us a room…
Musée des Blindés, Saumur
Continuing with our visit of Saumur … on the theme of military transportation, from live horses to their modern mechanical replacements … After touring the National Riding School (Ecole nationale d’Equitation), we quickly drove over to the Musée des Blindés (Armoured Vehicle Museum). Unfortunately, it was late in the afternoon and the museum was closing. So we looked…
La Cadre Noir de Saumur
Back to posting on the stuff we did in June in the Val de Loire … The French National Riding School (Ecole nationale d’Equitation) founded in 1972 is located in Saumur. Take a look at their very helpful official website here. Much of the information here came from this site. We had a 2+ hour-guided tour (the…
Château et Jardins de Villandry
This is one of the three chateaux we visited in the Loire Valley. We chose Villandry because of its famous beautiful gardens. Villandry is unusual in that it is a Renaissance castle that was the residence of neither a king nor a courtesan, but of Jean Le Breton, Minister of Finance for François I. He drew…