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This is not a "regional tour" in the usual sense of the word. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn fact, after experiencing the scenery of Normandy and Brittany for the first time, and reveling in the beauty of the Loire Valley, An Qingju and Ann will "move" to Burgundy. It was a process of migration from the west to the east of France.

Considering that Fontainbleau is actually quite far from the center of Paris (70 km), Ann Qingju and Ann Chuyu decided to stop at Fontainebleau at noon before continuing east to Troyes. Today the entire journey is more than 260 kilometres, of which 150 kilometres are from the Loire Valley to Fontainebleau.

The section of the car to Fontainebleau allowed An Qingju and An Chuyu to experience the wild process of a spaceship rushing towards the earth, and this huge "attraction" was not gravity, but the power of "absorbing gold".

As long as the car enters Île-de-France, near or through Paris, GPS will automatically choose the highway, and the highway is definitely a tall one, looking at the road that An Qingju and An first met in Normandy is not the same level. The "gold-absorbing" ability of the roads of the Paris department is also definitely "high".

The short road from the Loire Valley to Fontainebleau is more than 100 kilometers, and I actually paid a toll of 24.7 euros! And the Normandy highway that An Qingju and An first met before, and the toll was only 2-3 euros for a toll.

Now let's talk about how to pay for motorway tolls in France.

When entering the toll highway, as in our country, you have to stop to get a card. It's just that people don't issue cards manually, but go to the gate, and a machine automatically takes pictures and "spit out" a card. Only when the card is pulled out of the machine, the gate will be automatically pulled up and the car will be released. The difference is at the place of the exit.

In general, most expressways do not have manual toll gates at the exit (except for a few sections). This is generally the case with automatic toll collection outlets.

First look at the light signs at the ding end of the exit toll station, they all have the word "T", indicating that you have to check the ticket here (that is, the ticket at the entrance). The functions of the three exits on the photo are not the same. There is a square sign next to the "T" logo on the leftmost toll slot, which means that this exit is charged by card.

All highway credit cards in France are swiping that kind of chip credit card, and most of the Chinese people who met An Qingju and An Chuyu can't get this kind of card in China, so it's best not to try it here, in case it doesn't work and then reverse it will be more troublesome.

There is a yellow "reserve" railing sign on the middle toll gate, which has a "ETC" speed pass exit similar to ours. Rented cars are not passable. There is no credit card logo on the rightmost slot, and this exit supports both cash and credit cards; For us Chinese people to rent a car and drive, it is best to take this exit.

How do I pay? First of all, insert the card of the entrance collar into the machine of the entrance and export (rest assured, you will find that socket.) It's very eye-catching), and the screen automatically shows you the amount you want to pay – no matter what the French language is, the amount is always recognized.

There are usually two areas at the bottom of the amount screen: cash payment and card payment, which are now called cash payment. There are two payment ports in the cash payment area. Banknote and coin slots. Note that banknotes are generally only available for up to 20 euros. So if you want to get on the toll highway, it's best to have a penny of change.

The toll of nearly 25 euros made An Qingju and An Chuyu gasp. This is definitely an extra-budgetary expenditure! This warns you who are traveling and driving in France, if you are driving close to the Paris department (that is, Île-de-France), when navigating on GPS. If you want to save money, you must try to avoid high speeds.

Later, An Qingju and An Chuyu found out that there is a website in France, on this website, just enter your start and end dian. The approximate toll you will pay for the highway will be calculated automatically; If you choose a different road, the cost will be adjusted accordingly.

In addition, France also offers a number of money-saving options for driving avoidparis. Given that this fee is so high, it's worth the effort.

When visiting the Loire Valley, if you go to "Chambord", everyone knows to go to Chambord Castle; Go to Chenonceau. I am also going to the Château de Chenonceau; No one thought of going to "Chambord" or "Chenonceau", maybe this town is not called "Chambord" or "Chenonceau".

An Qingju and An first met when they went to Fontainebleau. Of course, I think that "Fontainebleau" is probably also a "palace" or "castle", and the GPS is entered. I went straight to it. I didn't expect the car to get there, and people were stupid.

It turns out that Fontainebleau and Fontainebleau are not the same thing. It is also specially marked with two different entries and reminds readers to distinguish them, which shows that there are not a few tourists like An Qingju and An Chuyu.

Fontainebleau is the largest municipality in Île-de-France and the only municipality in the region larger than the city of Paris, which belongs to the district of 87 municipalities belonging to the Seine-et-et-Marne region. - Cow.

The next time you navigate the GPS, you must make it clear whether you are going to the Château de Fontainebleau or visiting the city. Think about it, does China have such a place to name a famous tourist attraction as the name of the city? ……

Of course, An Qingju and An first met to visit the Palace of Fontainebleau. The car shuttled through the city with difficulty, and did not dare to drive fast, not only to see the road, but also to find where the palace was.

Suddenly, a luxurious building flashed out the car window, and it didn't look like a high-end residential area. Then use GPS to locate "R", and find that it is on the opposite side of this building, and behind the iron fence must be the rumored Palace of Fontainebleau!

On-street parking is hard to find, but there is a large paid parking lot not far from the visitor center, surrounded by a high wall, so you can find it by looking a little. After parking the car, the two of them entered the visitor center to figure out what to do next. It's really hard to open your mouth, and you're always embarrassed to ask, "Excuse me, did An Chuyu come to the Palace of Fontainebleau?" ”。

After thinking about it, he asked very subtly, "An Chuyu wants to visit the Château de Fontainebleau." Can you recommend a route for An Chuyu? It's much better. The staff was very enthusiastic, tearing off a page of maps for An Qingju and An Chuyu, and seriously pointed out how An Qingju and An Chuyu "walked" around the Château de Fontainebleau and the classical buildings around it.

By the way, I really want to praise the tourist service centers of these developed countries. An Qingju and An Chuyu actually didn't go to the visitor center to ask for help in France, after all, there were a lot of strategies in China. But really when An Qingju and An Chu met in doubt. Every tourist service center that I walked into can immediately solve the problems that An Qingju and An first encountered.

At the Tourist Information Center, you can find a variety of free brochures and maps for sightseeing tours, as well as souvenirs and souvenir books for a fee. All the staff are fluent in English – at least you can understand and understand.

In France, every visitor center provides a simple map of various functions printed in a large stack (such as this one in the photo), which the staff will tear out according to your needs at the time (e.g. want to walk, want to find a place, want to ride a bike) and mark the walking route with a pen. It's really clear at a glance.

In the later tours, An Qingju and An Chuyu had some more strange problems and went to the visitor center for help, but they were all satisfactorily solved, and this will be left later.

An Qingju and An Chuyu pushed the door into the office, and it really looked like an office. A xiao partitioned office chair, against the wall placed a xiao shelf similar to a newspaper reading rack, on which is placed a stack of travel guides, is a large folded kind, one map and one advertisement.

I took one and opened it, and I didn't find the "Prairie Sky Road" for a long time. looked up and wanted to ask for help, but saw only a Xiao guy sitting in the office who was playing with his head down on the computer - when An Qingju and An Chuyu came in, he had already glanced at An Qingju and An Chuyu, as if An Qingju and An Chuyu were engaged in sales and broke into someone's office area.

An Qingju and An Chumet so they asked Xiao about the "Grassland Heavenly Road", and the other party replied. "Today is the weekend. Rested. It's on duty, and I don't know, you look for it on the shelf. Yes? No? Then maybe this scene dian has not yet published a brochure. When they put out the brochure, they put it up, and there is no one here. ”

Sound familiar, right? It's very Chinese, right? An Chuyu wants to know, how many tourists have walked into this "tourist service center" in China? And how many people are actually helped?

The visitor centre of Fontainebleau is different. From here, An Qingju and An Chuyu knew that the tour of the Palace of Fontainebleau was divided into three levels of tours. The first is a visit to the palace of Fontainebleau, which is an entrance fee, 11 euros per person. If you have a Paris Museum Pass, you don't have to buy a separate ticket, but the audio guide will have to pay separately.

The second is to visit the gardens and forests of the Château de Fontainebleau. This garden is free of charge, and the green part of the map is basically the garden of the Château de Fontainebleau. It's super big, so you have to be mentally prepared. The third is to visit the architecture of the city of Fontainebleau, and anyone who has studied art knows that there is a Fontainebleau school.

Since François I, successive French kings have renovated the Château de Fontainebleau, and for vacations or trysts with their mistresses, various lawyer, educational, and financial service facilities around the Château de Fontainebleau have also been set up, so the buildings around the Château de Fontainebleau are very beautiful, luxurious and complex than the French rural buildings, and more relaxed and romantic than the urban buildings of Paris.

There is a black mark on the map, which is the suggested walking route.

Bleau, which means "blue spring water" in French, was once translated by Xu Zhimo as "Fontaine Boluo", but Zhu Ziqing's translation of "Fontainebleau" will make people unconsciously fall into an endless reverie of beauty. There are the swaying shadows of the trees, the thin dew of autumn, the change of seasons, and the eternity of time...... This name, to praise it in two words, can only be - beautiful.

The Palace of Fontainebleau is the residence of the King of France, which is equivalent to the Chengde Summer Resort here.

At first, it was built by Louis VI in the early 12th century, and at that time it was really the scale of a "country house", and when François I longed for the Italian Renaissance, he built this place on a large scale, and raised a group of artists to create and design, making it magnificent.

From the appearance, the Palace of Fontainebleau does not feel particularly prominent, it is similar to other French royal palaces in the same architectural style, and it is not too tall, plus it is the identity of the palace, it does not look tall and grand, but more relaxed tone.

But the interior is completely different. The interior of the Château de Fontainebleau is a model of the "beech house" in the home decoration of the Chinese nouveau riche in the 10s, which is the super luxury version of the "wood grain all-inclusive" style. The jargon is:

A combination of joining, plaster reliefs and frescoes. Like this super-famous François I Promenade Hall wwhati'msaying?

I also saw a luxurious reception hall, where Napoleon "summoned" Pope Pius VII in 1804 for the coronation ceremony, which was absolutely unprecedented at that time, and it was all the king's share of the Pope's coronation in Rome, and now it is reversed, and Napoleon's power can be seen.

In order to enjoy comfort and office affairs in the palace, there are various dance halls, prayer rooms, offices, study rooms, reception rooms, exhibition halls, living rooms, etc., the style is luxurious and complex, whether it is Baroque or Rococo, in short, it is the Italian nouveau riche style.

An Qingju and An Chuyu specially wanted to see a Huaguo Pavilion in the Château de Fontainebleau. This pavilion was built by Queen Eugenie, the French Emperor Napoleon III.

The reason for the construction is simple: it is to store the relics looted from the Old Summer Palace, which was looted by the British and French forces in 1860, and the French commander Mentoban presented the loot from the Old Summer Palace to Napoleon III and Queen Eugenie.

The queen was delighted and set aside a set of exhibition halls to store these treasures, which are said to contain more than 30,000 famous Chinese paintings, gold and silver jewelry, porcelain, incense burners, chimes, precious stones, and gold and silverware.

I always heard people say how many treasures there are in the Old Summer Palace, unheard of and so on, so that An Qingju and An first met these Chinese descendants and gave full play to their imagination, imagining how exquisite and beautiful the treasures that were snatched away by the "powers" that they had never seen were. An Qingju and An first met so far away, no matter what, they wanted to see the honor.

But after going in and reading it, I can really only use the word "disappointed" to express the feelings of An Qingju and An Qingju's first encounter.

First of all, it cannot be said that this is a specially "established" Huaguo Pavilion. Of course, if you call it a "warehouse", you can't help but be wronged by it, after all, it is deliberately planned and placed in a staggered manner. To be continued

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