The Loire Valley and especially Blois
Built on the Cisse, the village of Chouzy-sur-Cisse has many old watermills. I love the reflection of the window in the right-hand canal and the little coloured flower pots. Etant construit sur la Cisse, le village de Chouzy-sur-Cisse a de nombreux anciens moulins. J’aime bien la réflexion de la fenêtre dans le canal de droite …
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Lilian Allouin, a friend and neighbour from Les Grouets, took this photo of old shoes filled with plants lined up on the wall of a friend’s house in the pretty little village of Lavardin. C’est Liliane Allouin, amie et voisine des Grouets, qui a pris cette photo de ces vieilles chaussures garnies de plantes chez …
We found this on our bike route yesterday – an old grape press at Château Moncontour near Vouvray. It also has a museum, unfortunately, for us, closed on Sundays. You can also see the troglodyte cellars. En faisait du vélo hier, nous avons trouvé ce vieux pressoir au Château Moncontour à côté de Vouvray. Il y a …
This is another disproportionately large town hall in Nazelles-Négron (near Amboise), a village of 3500 people called Nazellois. I couldn’t step back far enough to get a better photo with my iPhone 5. Voici la mairie de Nazelle-Négron près d’Amboise, une fois de plus disproportionnée par rapport à sa population de 3500 habitants qui s’appellent des nazellois. …
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I once had a jigsaw puzzle with a fisherman in it that looked just like this. I wonder if he caught any fish. Autrefois j’avais un puzzle avec un pêcheur qui ressemblait exactement à celui-ci. Je me demande s’il a attrapé des poissons.
Don’t you think this is a lovely welcome to a French village? Candé sur Beuvron is on the bike path between Blois and Chaumont. N’est-ce pas un bel accueil lorsqu’on arrive à Candé sur Beuvron en faisant du vélo entre Blois et Chaumont?
I love the steps on the town hall in the nearby village of Chouzy sur Cisse, which has a population of fewer than 2,000 people. A little girl was sitting very decoratively on the steps but she ran off when she say me take the photo! J’aime bien l’escalier de la mairie du village voisin …
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This is the local primary and pre-school in Noizay, 10 km from Amboise, on the road to Tours. It has a population of about 1200 inhabitants. The school has four classes totalling about 100 children, from ages 3 to 9. The town hall, much less impressive, is on the other size. Voici l’école primaire de Noizay, à …
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On 17th May 1882, the Noizay municipal council built a small hut to provide shelter for the night to “destitute wayfarers, labourers and homeless souls” passing through the village. A salary was paid to the person in charge of cleaning the hut built along the walls of the château de Noizay. Subsequently,the “garde champêtre”, a sort of …
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This beautiful insignia in Saint Dyé sur Loire is a caravel (the house is named La Caravelle), a small, highly manoeuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and the Atlantic Ocean. A gently sloping bow and single stern castle were prominent features and it generally had several masts with …