Sunday, June 16, 2013

la Loire à velo - bike tour of the Loire


For those of you who placed comments during this last week and wondered why I hadn't responded, it's because I was on a five day bike tour of the Loire valley between Amboise and the Atlantic.  Fortunately, Blogger allowed me to queue up the weeks' posts in advance.  Pictured here are my fellow bike tourists on the first day as we approached château d'Ussé.  This is claimed to be the castle that Charles Perrault had in mind when he wrote Sleeping Beauty.

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  1. Sounds like a great way to go on a tour!

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    1. Indeed it was a grand tour. There will be more photos to come!

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  2. un de mes rêves


    je découvre le blog
    bravo

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    1. Les rêves peuvent devenir réalité.

      Merci.

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  3. It looks like the castle at Disneyland.

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    1. It certainly does. While Disneyland certainly jumped on the Sleeping beauty story (that is related to château Ussé), I believe they actually based their castle's design on one in Germany.

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