Tuesday, 3 May 2011

30 April Part A - Day 12 Loire Chateaux: Chambord

 The town of Blois, across la Loire, en route to Chambord
Chambord of today...
Chambord the way it was (in the 18th century - already 200 years old!)
 Fairly impressive staircase
 The inside of the stircase...
 ... has a pretty cool skylight
 The roof at the top of the staircase, has some pretty cool carving
Seamus had lots of fun taking photos
 The wall paper was delicious...

... boys in blue
 Louis XIV out for a ride
Lots of beautiful 'F's and dragons carved all over the place
 The black diamonds and dots are very effective

 You can take our word for it... the view from the top was rather nice
 Chanda-deer (oh dear, sorry)
 One of the hunting trophy rooms (the vegetarian was not impressed)
 The little external staircase (tradesmen's entrance)
These pheasant were much easier to photograph than the wild ones in the Yorkshire Wolds
Finished the trip to Chambord with some needlework.

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