The wall is part of the old city walls in Blois. The two men are professionals. Do you know what they are doing? Ce mur fait partie de l’ancienne enceinte de Blois. Les deux hommes sont des professionnels. Est-ce que vous savez ce qu’ils font?
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Ramsgate – La Porte des beliers
Romorantin also has an industrial past. The family business of Normant Frères specialized in the production of woollen sheets. It was founded around 1815 by three brothers, Antoine (1784-1849), Jacques Benjamin (1793-1823) and René Hippolyte Normant (1796-1867), and disappeared in 1969, after an unique industrial adventure that lasted more than 150 years. The Romorantin factory …
Hôtel Saint Pôl
These two striking 16th century buildings are just next the one in yesterday’s post. The wattle and daub Chancellery housed the royal seals. The facade of the Hôtel Saint Pôl on the right and below, is made of stone and brick. It consists of large lozenges formed by enamelled bricks whose particular shade of green …
Palais Jacques Coeur Bourges
The Palais Jacques-Cœur in Bourges is considered to be one of the most sumptuous civil buildings of the 15th century in France and a masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic civil architecture, due to the elegance of its architecture and the richness and variety of its decoration. This 15th century building prefigures the private mansions that were …
Half-timbered houses in Bourges – Maisons à pans de bois à Bourges
Bourges has an amazing number of very well-preserved half-timbered houses of which these are just a few of the easiest to photograph. Between 1000 and 2000 houses were destroyed by fire in 1487 but more were soon built and today there are more than 440 houses from this reconstruction. After the fire new regulations required …
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Bourges Cathedral
We went to Bourges today to pick up a 2019 secondhand Renault Scenic to replace our 2005 Scenic bought in 2007. It sadly died last Sunday having clocked up 188 000 km. Both are automatics, not very popular in France, but they have saved my back. Unfortunately the stunningly beautiful UNESCO classified cathedral was closed …
The Tin Roof – Le toit en tôle
Somebody needed a garage obviously and couldn’t afford slate! The patron saint of the church is called Bienheuré which means very happy. Saint Bienheuré is a semi-legendary saint of Vendôme said to have lived in a nearby cave during the 3rd century. Like Saint George, he is said to have slayed a dragon. He is …
Drooping Narcissus – Narcisses tombants
Our narcissus usually look a lot perkier than this but recent frost made the earliest bloomers keel over. Nos narcisses sont plus guillerets en temps normal mais le gel recent a fait tomber ceux qui ont fleuri en avance.
On our bikes at last! – Enfin en vélo!
It was incredibly warm this afternoon – 18 degrees Celsius – so we couldn’t resist getting our bikes out. Nearly three hours in the saddle and 45 km were probably a bit much for our first bike ride this year. The last time I took a photo of this 18th century chateau (Domaine de Seillac), …
I’m in the vegetable garden – Je suis au potager
This is probably the coolest transmission station I’ve ever seen. Today was the first time I saw this side of it though – I’d only seen the two sides in the second photo that I took a week ago. Quoi de plus sympathique que ce poste de transmission! Mais j’ai vu ce côté pour la …
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