Bon week-end à tous, have a good weekend everyone...

All roads lead to...

Festival International des Jardins 2021 Chaumont-sur-Loire - gardens 4B to 7

04BIS.MOSAÏQUE MIMÉTIQUE

 05.RÉGÉNÉRESCENCE

 06.TERRAIN VAGUE ABONDE

 07.TERRITOIRE DE BOCAGE

Photos from our visit to this years Garden Festival. You can see more details of the individual gardens here on the official festival website.

Vendredi à vélo - cycling Loches and Southern Touraine

 

You can check out cycling routes in Southern Touraine here 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - Tour Saint Antoine Loches

 

Not the colour of sky we expect in July here in Touraine!

Wednesday for windows - Palais de Justice in Loches has new windows to the world...

Took this photo yesterday of the progress of the work on converting the former Palais de Justice in Loches into a 45 room, 4 star hotel. New (?) windows have been opened up on the first floor and the roof. This project is apparently costing around 10M euros, a brave investment we would have thought!

Old image is  from article in France Bleu

Festival International des Jardins 2021 Chaumont-sur-Loire -Gardens 1 to 4

 

01.LE JARDIN CAMÉLÉON

 

 02.LE JARDIN DE LA TERMITIÈRE

03.CE QUE L'ON VOIT, CE QUE L'ON SAIT

04.BLEU DÉSIR

You can see more details of the individual gardens here on the official festival website.

Tuesday for towns - Chaumont-sur-Loire

Chaumont-sur-Loire is a small village (pop. around 1100) with a large chateau. Predominately consisting of a single street along the south bank of the Loire river it is lorded over by its chateau of the same name.It is a relatively new village by French standards and was really only created as part of the reconstruction of the chateau grounds in the middle of the 19th century. More info here...

Image © Marc Hetter

 

Monday's Loire Valley chateau - Chateau de Chaumont-sur-Loire

As viewed from the site of the International Garden Festival on Saturday (above). Going to dedicate this week to our visit.

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - It's behind you! at Chateau Candé

 

Bon week-end à tous, have a good weekend everyone...

 

Vendredi à vélo - au bord le Loire

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - Le tournesol...tres Tourangeau!

 

Bursting out all over Touraine.

Wednesday for windows...dressed to draw you in.

 

Window of the brocante shop in the centre of Saint-Benoît-du-Sault which is well signposted?

Tuesday for towns - Saint-Benoît-du-Sault

The fortified medieval village of Saint-Benoît-du-Sault in the south of Berry Province (Indre) which evolved around a 10th century priory, today maintains much of its charm and authenticity. 

Looking pretty under a blue July sky.

Monday's chateau - Chateau de Valencay

 

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - Chaumussay, Southern Touraine

 

Bon week-end à tous, have a good weekend everyone.

 

Vendredi à vélo - sunflowers and pedal power.

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine...river Indre

 

Taken from the bridge in front of Chateau d'Usse.

Wednesday for windows - vieux Tours

 

Love this selection in old Tours

Tuesday for towns in the Loire Valley - Amboise

 

Looking over the rooftops of Amboise towards the Collegiate church of Saint Denis.

Monday's Loire Valley chateau - Azay-le-Rideau

 

The side elevation of Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau 

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - nature and unatural

 

By the river Creuse in Yzeures-sur-Creuse 

 

Bon week-end à tous, have a good weekend everyone.

 

Love it when the tournesol begin to open up, a sure sign that summer is here for real!

Vendredi à vélo - Le Tour in Touraine

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - Lac de la Bergeonnerie, Tours

 

Wednesday is for windows - Beaugency...best dressed?

 

Tuesday for towns and villages - the rooftops of Le Grand-Pressigny

More on Le Grand-Pressigny here

 

Monday's Loire Valley Chateau - Chateau de Loches - Logis Royal

More here...

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - another of Descartes' fine examples.

 

In the gardens behind Museum René Descartes

 

Bon week-end à tous, have a good weekend everyone.

 

'In the frame' in the grounds of Chteau de Cheverny.

Vendredi à vélo - a helping hand...

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - Gare de Tours

 

Tours