When I started this blog a year ago, I committed to taking and sharing a photo a day to improve my photography skills. Thanks to your feedback and encouragement, I feel I’ve come a really long way. I took hundreds of photos this year, including a ridiculous number of shots of bicycles, bridges, castles, cows, flowers, […]
After visiting Versailles, Auvers-sur-Oise, Giverny, and several beautiful castles in the Loire Valley, it was time to return to Paris for one last night in the City of Lights and our flight home. While my Better Half took a cat nap, I went out to buy a few gifts for the kids and bottles of […]
The Chateau de Chambord is the largest castle in the Loire Valley. It was built as a hunting lodge for King Francois I, in part to be near his mistress th Comtesse de Thoury who lived at the Chateau de Muides nearby, but was never completed. Instead Francois I maintained his royal residences at […]
There wasn’t really any detail about the dining room at Chateau d’Usse in the handout at the castle, but I thought it was one of the prettiest we saw in the Loire Valley. I really love the butter-yellow walls with white trim, cranberry accents, and crystal chandelier. You Might Also Enjoy: Chateau de Villandry: Dining […]
I’ve shared photos from my visits to Chateau d’Amboise, Chateau du Clos Luce, and Chateau du Chenonceau in the Loire Valley so far. Today I move on to Chateau de Villandry. In addition to the magnificent gardens, what I loved most about Chateau de Villandry was that a modern, “real” family lived here. Well, as “real” a […]
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