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.
