When we left Amboise, I announced to Ron that it was going to be a very nice transit day because we had nice first class seats on the train and it was a pretty quick ride. And I should know better than to make a statement like this. My pronouncements trigger reverse corollary chaos. We […]
Assorted floor tiles of the great chateaux in the Loire Valley
Financial question: If Ron needs to iron his Hawaiian Airlines credit card because it spent two hours in the crazy French dryer and curled itself into a circle, should he use the dry heat setting or the moist heat setting? We’re just packing up to leave Amboise in the morning and take the train down […]
Photogenic Amboise
We came to Amboise to relax a bit after Paris and have a few days to see chateaux. Amboise sits in the Loire Valley – site of the greatest concentration of chateaux in France. There are about 300 here and we are seeing 5. Today we saw the two that sit right in Amboise – […]
My expanded palate and French Laundry
We’re in Amboise now, with two days of chateaux to visit. The above picture is a baguette vending machine at the train station, and should have been an indicator of how serious the baguette business is here. We had a couple of hours before we got access to our apartment and so we planted ourselves […]
