Chateau Le Grand Pressigny early evening in spring...

Spring at Chateau de Chenonceau...

Spring at Chateau Villandry Gardens...

Spring is a lovely time to visit the Loire Valley in France.You can see the gardeners response to the season at the wonderful gardens at Chateau Villandry 

Le Grand Pressigny past and present...

A very good slide-show of Le Grand Pressigny in Southern Touraine here in Centre Val de Loire by Fanch Eiffel has been added to the site it shows photographs of the present and glimpses of the past - although really, not a lot has changed.    

Brocantes / Vide-greniers Easter weekend in the Loire Valley...

Veretz chateau a lovely setting for a brocante 

Easter Sunday 5 April 2015

Amboise - Vide-maison

Charge - Fete de la Detente - Brocante Vide-greniers

Esvre - Vide-greniers

Marigny Marmande - Brocante

Pont de Ruan - Brocante Vide-greniers

Saint Roch - Vide-greniers

Tavant - Brocante vide-greniers

If you are in Southern Touraine you can pop over to the brocante in the beautiful Angles-sur-l'Anglin

You can check out previous brocante at Angles-sur-l'Anglin  here

Monday 6 April 2015

Descartes - Vide-greniers

Langeais - Brocante de paques

You can check out previous brocante at Langeais here

Saint Epain - Brocante

Verettz - Brocante et vide-greniers du lundi de Pâques au château 

You can check out previous brocante at Veretz  here

The little people can be found in...

1. 

On the front of one of the half-timbered houses on Rue Marceau in Chinon.

The street hasn't always been called Rue Marceau as this plaque explains.