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These days, the breakfast is a hearty French country breakfast: there is a French cake baked by the hostess; There is also hand-made yogurt - so delicious, very thick, very sour, much better than the yak yogurt that An Qingju and An Chuyu ate in **; In addition, there is the jam made by the fruit from the yard of the proprietress herself - the jam of figs is so sweet!

Doing it yourself a thousand times, sometimes not as effectively as a local's advice – you can see how many benefits there are to being able to communicate. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info An Qingju and An Chuyu plan today is to go to Chenon Soonceaux Castle (very close to where Ann Chuyu lives).

Consulted with the hostess, Marie suggested that An Qingju and An Chuyu should go to Chenon Soonceaux in the morning, which is only 18 kilometers away and a short drive away, so as to avoid the crowds of large-scale visitors.

For lunch, An Qingju and An Chuyu are recommended to go to a restaurant in the garden of the Château de Chenon Soonceaux, where she said it would definitely be worth the trip. After a break in the afternoon, head to the town of Amboise to see the Amboise Castle. As it turned out, it was a good route.

An Qingju and An Chuyu were lazy, and after breakfast, they shamelessly came back to sleep, and they didn't set off until half past ten. Half an hour to Chenonceaux, fortunately there were not many people here - as I later learned, the brigade arrived around noon.

At €12.5 per person, the castle is the most expensive of all castle tickets. After entering, according to the hostess's suggestion, I first went straight to the L'erie restaurant (now I know, called "Orangerie Restaurant"), held the name of the restaurant written by the proprietress for An Qingju and An Chuyu all the way to find the place, and directly booked a meal at 1 pm.

Then take a stroll back and take a closer look at Chenonso. You don't need to carry a heavy book to visit Chenonceau Castle. In fact, in the few castles where An Qingju and An first met to buy tickets, all the more famous castles provide free color Chinese simplified Chinese descriptions. The history of the castle (gossip), architectural style, and points of visit are all very detailed.

It is indeed good-looking, charming, worthy of the name "women's castle", and the overall style is feminine. Basically anyone who is going to visit this castle knows that Henry II's wife and mistress are jealous of this castle. However, the colourful pamphlet doesn't explain how the castle came to be:

The castle was first written in the 11th century and belonged to a local lord, but the lord of the castle rebelled, burned to the ground, and was later rebuilt, but that was not what it is today. By the end of the 15th century, the lord of the castle was in debt and sold the castle to Thomas Thomp, the chancellor of the exchequer of Charles VIII, at a low price. Thomas Bohier.

The wealthy minister completely renovated the castle, but in fact it was the minister's wife and daughter who were in charge of supervising and designing it, so the castle was designed with a feminine eye. However, the castle did not have the long promenade across the Cher at the back, but only jutted into the water - but it was already beautiful.

Soon after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had built the house, he was framed and bankrupted by the king, so he had to sell the castle to the king, François I, and the castle became the property of the Crown.

Later, François I died, and his son Henry II (note that this time it was King of France, not King Henry II of England; Truth be told, do Europeans have these names? Took over the property and gave the castle directly to the favorite concubine Diana? Morality? Diaiers.

Later, after the death of Henry II, his wife, the famous Catherine? Morality? The Medici drove the concubine to the Chaumont-sur-Loire castle, where she lived and worked on the water corridor that Ann and Ann first met.

Later, the castle was no longer owned by the royal family, and the owner of the French ** period was Louis? Mrs. DuPont. Later, during World War II, the castle was owned by the Meunier family, known as the Kingdom of Chocolate. As head nurse, Ms. Meunier turned it into a field hospital and a front for members of the Resistance.

The castle was originally designed and built by a woman, and the famous owner was also a woman. This is where the name "a castle built by a woman for a woman" comes from. However, many of the castle's fireplaces and wall decorations have left traces of war between women.

Especially the famous Catherine? Morality? Medici, as the wife of Henry II, never made much trouble when her husband was alive, and she was a big cow when her husband died.

first blew away her husband's mistress (which is completely understandable), and then built a lot of construction in the mistress's castle, decorating the room with her husband's letter "h" and her own initials "c" everywhere.

At the same time, this Medici was also the mother of the next three French kings (François II, Charles IX and Henry III), and used poison. Drugs and poison schemes. It was she who provoked her son, Charles IX, to initiate the Night of St. Bartholomew, which bloodied Paris overnight and killed thousands of Huguenots.

If you like it, you can learn about this history and sit in this woman's castle to feel it.

Let's sum up the idea of visiting. Let's start with the castle. The castle is divided into two parts: the main body and the water gallery. The main body is on the shore, and inside is room by room - it seems that each hostess has his own room. There are also a lot of "salon" rooms, which are full of collectibles. ――The castle part An Qingju didn't look very energetic.

What impressed An Qingju was the part of the Water Gallery, which was the masterpiece of Henry II's wife. Let's start with the first floor, the first floor is the kitchen lying directly on the water, which can be described as everything. Also, a woman should entertain her admirers, but she must also keep the stomachs of others.

Moreover, during the French ** period, Madame Dupont established the Chenonceau salon here, and Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu all came here to talk about ideas, and the hostess naturally wanted to entertain them.

There are also special hinges in the kitchens that protrude from the windows to the river, and farmers are hoisting grains, meats, fruits and vegetables from the river to cook in these kitchens. There are too many copper pots in the kitchen to count, and the elder has seen it.

On the second floor is a super long ballroom that lies across the river and is extremely well lit. The floor is made of black and white bricks, and there are soft couches under each long window where you can rest, so you can imagine how wonderful it would be to have a dance. But that's not all, as Meunier of the Chocolate Kingdom converted Chenonceau into a hospital during the First World War.

During the Second World War, the Scheer River was a dividing line, the entrance to the castle was in the occupied zone, and the south gate of the promenade led to the free zone, that is, Vichy France. So many people went from here to the free zone with the help of the resistance. Although the Germans are reluctant to enjoy the beauty of French art, it is always unpleasant to see that there are always people who escape under their noses.

Throughout the war, a German artillery company was on standby by Chenonceau, ready to blow up the beautiful gallery "if you can't bear it": for An Qingju and An Chuyu, the castle is beautiful, and the courtyard is also beautiful. But the French meal is even more tempting! It was almost 1 o'clock, and the two of them couldn't wait to go straight to the L'erie restaurant that An Qingju and An Chuyu had booked.

L'erie is big and magnificent. If you don't have a reservation, you might have to wait outside - Marie was so sweet. The restaurant is elegant, with guests with reservations sitting in the glass flower room outside the main hall of the restaurant, which is very well lit and has a view of the green courtyard outside through the floor-to-ceiling glass.

At this moment, An Qingju and An Chuyu are not very familiar with the menu of French food, and they still need to try many times before they can gradually find their way. This time, the two of them ordered two set meals, which included four courses: appetizer, main course, cheese, and dessert.

The knives and forks on the table are arranged separately according to the four dishes, and they are used as follows: the outermost is the appetizer, then the main course, the cheese is served with the knife and fork above, and the dessert spoon is served separately.

An Chuyu's set meal is like this: the appetizer is duck, the main dish is red wine pork, and the dessert is dailydelight, which is recommended by the chef on the day - a dessert made according to the chef's mood: An Qingju's set meal is like this: the appetizer is pork puree, the main dish is stewed chicken thighs, and the dessert is ice cream.

After eating a meal, I said that this is still like French food, quite exquisite, and it is also delicious; In addition, the amount of food is still very large - sincerely. What is more unacceptable is cheese. It is said that France has its own favorite cheese, which is a roasted goat's cheese and eaten with lettuce and crispbread.

This cheese is included in every set meal and is clearly a home dish. Just as foreigners can't stand the stinky tofu and Songhua eggs of the Chinese people, we have to suffer a while when we eat authentic cheese. As soon as he took a bite of it, the food in An Qingju's stomach began to roll up and down as if it had come to life, and the taste was really ...... gritted his teeth and ate a piece, and let An Chuyu kill the rest of the rest.

Cheese is a very heavy food, and if you eat it like this at noon, you can't go down to dinner anyway. An Qingju and An Churen's dinner today was spent in digesting lunch.

The lunch meal cost nearly 70 euros for two people, which I personally think is worth it, and it is certainly not the price in Paris, and the food is indeed fresh and exquisite.

After eating too much for lunch, the two of them came out of Chenongsuo and went back to their lodgings to take a nap. It was half past five in the afternoon when I set off again, went to the supermarket to refuel, bought some tomatoes and ate them as fruits and vegetables in the evening.

Don't look at it at half past five, the sun is so high that people think it's just over two o'clock. So even if you get a good night's sleep, you don't feel like you're working hard – that's probably the benefit of traveling in Europe in the summer.

As previously planned, the two crossed the river again to the city of Amboise. It is a small town built on the Loire River, and the walls of the Château d'Amboise are right on the river's edge, and it looks very imposing.

This castle and the monuments around the castle are famous for two things. For one, this castle is the birthplace of Charles VIII.

He was the last direct monarch of the Valois dynasty of France, and was later succeeded by his relative Louis XII, who was the cousin of Charles VIII, and then did not even have a cousin, and directly gave the throne to his son-in-law, who was later François I.

(As a side note, Louis XII and Charles VIII's queen were the same person: Anna of Brittany.) Either way, Charles VIII had a deep affection for his birthplace and has been building the castle ever since.

His heirs, François I, the heirs of his heirs, expanded the Château d'Amboise, making it both defensive and artistic.

Since the time of Charles VIII, France has been constantly conquering Italy, which has also made France gradually fascinated by Italian Renaissance art. When François I arrived, he directly began to promote the Renaissance in all aspects of French architecture, painting, and sculpture, which also gave the French king the title of "the founder of the Renaissance in France".

This is where Amboise is second famous: it became Leonardo?? The place where Leonardo da Vinci lived and was buried in his later years. François I brought Leonardo da Vinci from Italy and gave him his residence in Amboise.

In return, Leonardo da Vinci brought François I's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, from Italy, the Louvre's first collection.

The entrance fee to Amboise Castle is 10.7 euros per person, and after buying a ticket, you will walk up the road below, and there is a very fine white church in front of the building where An Qingju and An first encountered. Leonardo da Vinci is buried here:

An Qingju and An first met in Linda's book "Take a Book to Paris" and learned that this was Leonardo da Vinci's burial place. It is estimated that not many people actually know about it, and there are only two explanations in the travel book. Leonardo da Vinci's mausoleum is embedded in the ground, and there is a black Da Vinci marble relief on the ground in the corner of the church, and this is it.

The church itself is the castle's king's private chapel, and the eaves are carved with a variety of animals and plants, which is beautiful.

One of the most impressive things about visiting Amboise is its spaciousness. First of all, the castle was built on the riverside, and the view is particularly wide, and you can see far and wide at once.

The second castle is mainly white, and it is very tall, and it looks bright against the blue sky. The third is that the castle was built on a high slope and had a defensive role. In order to allow the carriage to go directly to the top of the castle, all the ramps are built to be particularly wide, so that the carriage can run directly:

Perhaps refreshed after a long nap, walking around the Château d'Amboise, bathed in sun, blue sky and billowing white clouds, overlooking the Loire is blissful:

Out of the castle, walk along the old streets of Amboise to Leonardo da Vinci's last residence before his death, where it is said that many of Leonardo da Vinci's designs have been restored according to Da Vinci's drawings, such as windmills, flying machines, etc. I didn't expect it to be closed. Also, it's almost 8 o'clock! Home.

After breakfast, the two of them took a walk around the town called Pocesurcisse. Staying for a long time has the advantage of being able to walk around these towns as much as you like. Opposite An Qingju and An Chu met is a publicpark, very large, with a very wide lawn, very thick ancient pine trees, and there is actually a castle, guess it should be the castle of the poce lord.

After walking around, An Chuyu came back and slept luxuriously, and didn't go out until 11 o'clock. Today's first destination is not the castle, but the city of Tours; Not for sightseeing, just for a Chinese meal. r1152

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