Monday's Loire Valley chateau - Chateau du Rivau

 

More on Chateau du Rivau here.

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - Descartes

 

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

 

Vendredi et une vue...new for Fridays

 

Looking towards Sancerre

Thursday's 'taken in Touraine' - Chinon street scene

More on Chinon here

 

Wednesday for windows - pretty in Preuilly-sur-Claise

 

Tuesday for towns and cities - Orléans

Orléans is the principle city in the Loiret department and also the capital of the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is a city steeped in the history of France. More here...

Monday's Loire Valley chateau - Chateau d'Azay-le-Ferron (36)

 

More here:  Chateau d'Azay-le-Ferron

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - so many choices at Parc Oriental.

Looking forward to spring and a potential return visit.

 

Bon weekend - have a good weekend from all of us here in Centre-Val de Loire

 

Chateau du Grand-Pressigny

Vendredi à vélo - and a monster move!

Looking towards 'The Monster of Tours', the statue created by the artist Xavier Veilhan and installed in Place du Grand Marché back in 2004.  

It was removed last Monday to allow pedestrianisation work to be done in the area and to have a little restoration work on The Monster itself - will it return?

Video of the move here

 

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - the stunning Chateau de Chenonceau

More on Chenonceau here

Wednesday is for windows...Chartres Cathedral

 

After featuring Chartres and its Cathedral yesterday thought we should have a look at some of its many (150+) stained glass windows  dating from about 1210 to1260. 

Tuesday for towns in Centre-Val de Loire - Chartres.

Chartres,the principle town of department of Eure-et- Loir, is best known for its spectacular Gothic cathedral - Cathedral Notre-Dame, (as in Paris) but has more to offer with the river Eure winding a path through it leaving its mark in the form of many bridges making it a lovely place for walking.

Monday's chateau - a January morning at Chateau de La Guerche.

 

More on Chateau de La Guerche here.

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench - bright by a bridge...

At Preuilly-sur Claise

 

Have a good weekend everyone - bon weekend à tous.

 

Vendredi à vélo - pedestrianised in Tours...

 

Rue Colbert in Tours

Thursday's taken in Touraine...misty January morning over the river Creuse.

Taken from the bridge over the river at La Guerche.

 

Wednesday for windows - fenêtres de Jean Linard

 

The windows of the 'Cathédrale' and former home of Jean Linard, French ceramist, sculptor, painter, engraver and architect located in the heart of Pays-Fort du Cher, in Neuvy-Deux-Clochers near Sancerre.

More here

Tuesday for towns in Centre-Val de Loire - Véretz on the river Cher in Indre-et-Loire.

 

Monday's Loire Valley chateau - chateau d'Amboise

 

Chateau d'Amboise.

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench

Simple and yet...in the grounds of Chateau d'Amboise.

 

Have a good weekend everyone - bon weekend à tous.

 

More on Chateau de Brissac here

Vendredi à vélo - a classic from middle England to the Centre of France.

 

Thursday's taken in Touraine - January evenings.

 Setting sun behind the Chateau at Le Grand-Pressigny.

Wednesday is for windows...it won't be long now!

 

A window in Azay-le-Rideau

Tuesday for towns - Vendome

The river Loir (no 'e') at Vendome in the department of Loir et Cher. 

Monday's chateau in Centre-Val de Loire - Apremont-sur-Allier

Chateau d'Apremont-sur-Allier in the village of the same name in the department of Cher was built in the second half of the 15th century.  It is currently the home of the novelist Elvire de Brissac.

Mon banc dominical/My Sunday Bench - Small but perfectly formed in Beaulieu-les-Loches.

 

Happy New Year / Bonne Année