This is the view from the Orangery of Château de la Vicomté where celebrated our 3rd Neighbours’ Day tonight. Tomorrow, there will be a wedding party here. Voici la vue de l’Orangery du Château de la Vicomté où nous nous sommes réunis pour notre troisième fête des voisins ce soir. Demain il y aura un …
Category Archives: Blois
A Castle in the Trees – Un château dans les arbres
La Fondation du Doute
You may remember my post about the cloud-lined steps recently. Today we went to see the artist’s exhibition “More than 100 skies” at La Fondation du Doute. The outside was interesting though I found it a little infantile. Inside the exhibition, which started with a passageway through some overhanging dead leaves and strangely distorting mirrors, …
The Chocolate Ruin – La Ruine du chocolat
I took this photo in rue de l’Hôtel-Pasquier in Les Grouëts as we were walking home from Bread-Baking Day yesterday. The house used to belong to the son of Victor-Auguste Poulain who founded one of France’s oldest chocolate brands, Chocolats Poulain. Albert Poulain built Bellevue in 1910 when the first tram line was inaugurated in Blois so that …
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Up in the clouds – Dans les nuages
We’ve been seeing the Denis Papin stairs in Blois from afar but thought they had been decorated to represent a waterfall. A closer look today shows it to be a cloudy sky! The collage, by Imprinova, is a hommage to Geoffrey Hendrinks, aged 86, nicknamed the Cloudsmith due to his watercolours designed to turn objects …
Weighed down with rain – Chargé de pluie
We haven’t had much rain this spring, but it’s been rather wet the last few days, to the relief of the cereal farmers. Our weigela was completely soaked this morning! Nous n’avons pas eu beaucoup de pluie au printemps cette année mais depuis quelques jours on se rattrape au grand soulagement des céréaliers. Notre weigela …
Blois in the Fifties – Blois aux années cinquante
Yesterday, our friends Susan and Simon from Loire Valley Time Travel, invited us to join them in a car rally in Blois called Le Bouchon de Blois aboard Claudette, their 1956 Citroën Traction Avant. The second photo features Susan and Simon who help visitors explore the historic and fascinating Loire Valley in style while the third is my favourite …
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A Street in Blois – Une rue blésoise
You can see that spring has arrived in this little street in the old quarter of Puits Chatel in Blois. On voit bien que le printemps est arrivé dans cette petite rue dans le vieux quartier de Puits Chatel à Blois.
Inspired – Suivez la flèche !
Saint Nicolas in Blois has a lot of spires. The building on the right is the Classical part of Blois château with Foix Tower in front of it. Le titre anglais est un jeu de mots car “spire” veut dire “flèche”. J’invite nos lecteurs français à proposer un titre du même type. Je n’ai trouvé …
Youngest French President? – Le plus jeune président de la république ?
With only a week the go before the first round of the French presidential elections, the campaign is full-on with the Saturday market in Blois a popular venue. According to the latest poll, the four leading candidates could all qualify for the second round, with the youngest, Emmanuel Macron, at 23%, slightly ahead of Marine Le …
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