Pardon moi for being remiss in my updating duties.
Yesterday we toured more castles, and Gramma ate more ice crème. We saw one castle that is known as the "Ladies Castle" because it was generally only women that lived in it and were received in it. It was somewhat smaller but the gardens were beautiful. Apparently it is still owned by a group of women who continue to oversee its care.
A huge vegetable garden, flower garden and decorative gardens - including a maze or labyrinth remain on the estate. Oh, and a donkey pen.
The castle before that one had 169 stairs to the top (I counted), and Grannymeister made it to the top again!
There is also these very cool trees over here that are named the Cedars of Lebannon, they seem to show up at the monarchs estates and we were lucky to have one in the gardens of our hotel.
Currently we are sitting at a train station in Paris waiting for our ride to Nice in the French Riviera - and there is no ice crème. Granny is coping, but she does not look happy.
The trains have been a bit messy because of that accident, so we have had to negotiate through the confusion. But they are very gracious, as I cannot say enough about how kind the French are, and they gave me a voucher for 2 free drinks at the beverage car for our inconvenience.
Funny that we have first class train tickets, but I ended up standing during the last leg of the trip by the bathroom because there was no room (not their fault, I negotiated us to be on an earlier train so that we could be sure to make our connection in Paris to Nice).
Anyway, the castles of the Loire Valley were indeed spectacular and as soon as I can remember how to upload photos I shall do that.
Finally - my phone will be working probably tomorrow and I have adjusted the settings to allow anyone to comment on these posts.
So ya'll can stop worrying, I am taking good care of the matriarch.
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