Chapter 487: The Story Behind Starlight
I had to be cheeky to stop and pinch the meter, waiting for the time to reach seven o'clock and then pick up the card, and all the drivers present understood it. Hotel Le Dem Du Paco Hotel LaDemeureduParc Xueluo and Dong Qingmei live next to this 200-year-old building, the price of a double room is 1323RMB, the decoration is simple and light, and the hardware is very good.
Worth recommending. Restaurant: La PetiteArdoise, most of the town's most popular restaurants are located on the Rue Montebello path. This is recommended, it tastes good, a main dish is about 19 euros. Do you know why there was no one at the table when Xue Luo was shooting? Because Xue Luo and the others went out to eat without any money, Xiaoyue went back to the hotel to get the money, hahaha.
After the trip to Fontainebleau, Snow and Snow drove there. The Loire is the largest river in France, and the valley is home to hundreds of castles of French princes and nobles. The combination of these buildings, a cultural product of human history, with natural beauty, makes it one of the most popular tourist destinations in France. Among them, there are many castles that can be visited by tourists as attractions.
There are also nearly 20 popular ones, and it is not realistic to visit them one by one. If you are not an avid castle lover and have a philatelic habit of visiting here, it is recommended to choose a few representative ones, slow down the itinerary, and savor them carefully one day at a time. Because a castle is not only worth seeing in its architecture and interior, but also its forests and gardens are worth a leisurely stroll.
Two years ago the snow fell to Champ Castle, and this time it went to another place. The first two of the five castles are closer to the town of Blois and the last three to Amboise. The approximate geographical location is shown in the map. He also wrote Château de Chambourg, Champor, Château de Merchant, etc., and the names of the castles along the Loire were mistranslated.
Pay attention when you search for navigation. It is the largest castle in the entire strip, just over two hours drive from Paris, and about an hour and forty minutes from Fontainebleau. The aforementioned King François I, who was obsessed with the Renaissance art style, was the palace he invited to design and build for himself by Italian artists.
It is one of the most iconic buildings of the French Renaissance and his legacy for France and the world. If you can only visit one castle in the whole area, it has to be it. Two years ago, two years later, I don't know if it was because the French Revolution looted the castle.
The interior of the castle is a little rough. It is worth seeing the intricate double spiral staircase in the center, where two people can look at each other through the small window in the staircase but cannot meet each other face to face, which is said to have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci. This is said to be more reliable, and François I had a good personal relationship with Leonardo da Vinci.
It's not hard to get a design draft, and Leonardo da Vinci is clearly such a whimsical person. Behind the snowfall is the spiral staircase, and the second attraction is the top of the castle. As you climb up the double spiral staircase to the rooftop and turn to look up, you'll find yourself surrounded by the tower's imposing flame-like Gothic mixed with Italian Renaissance style.
The first time the snow fell inside the castle, there was no charge for parking, but this time not only did there be a fee, but the parking lot was also expanded. There was a hotel next to the castle, and I went to this hotel restaurant for dinner in the evening for two consecutive days, and when I walked out of the restaurant at night, it was pitch black except for the warm yellow light that showed through the castle not far away.
I walked to the parking lot with a black light, and the car broke down. This feeling of revisiting the old place is very emotional. Hotel: close to the small town of blois, you can choose to stay here, two years ago Xueluo stayed in a farmhouse in Maslives, a five-minute drive away, at 6ruedumoulin, phone 0254813707.
Local rural women decorate their old homes for rent. Snow falls downstairs, and upstairs lives an old Jaguar 1954 X-type car and his wife, Xueluo and Dong Qingmei's car is parked outside the house on a field full of wild flowers, and when you come back at night, you will cross a dark country road with no street lights.
When I got up in the morning, the landlady drove over to prepare breakfast for Xueluo and Dong Qingmei and her group of tenants. Restaurant: There is a hotel next to Restaurant du Grand SaintMichel, and the restaurant inside is worth recommending. As a scenic restaurant, a main dish costs about 20 euros, the price is very reasonable, and the taste is good.
Two years ago when the snow fell here for two or three meals, this time it is being rebuilt. First of all, I would like to respond here, those who ask Xueluo how to enjoy life like Xueluo, first of all, have their own goal plan, determine where to play, calculate the cost required, if they are not enough, you can think of other methods, Xueluo uses another method.
Xueluo uses foreign exchange, friends who have been abroad, all know that currency exchange has an exchange rate, the exchange rate can be changed at any time, you can earn the difference in the middle, this is called foreign exchange, which is very popular in foreign countries, there is no bookmaker, trillions of transactions every day, people all over the world are in it, there are many platforms in China, if you don't know which platform to find.
Just add WeChat hkhl101213, which is the platform where Xueluo is currently on, you can choose to play by yourself, or you can choose to listen to their opinions, which is arbitrary. Here's wishing all those who have read this travelogue that their wealth is rolling and they have more wealth to travel abroad. Learn more about the country and culture, and learn more about how to make money.
This is a screenshot of Xueluo's play, and it is a very recommended foothold for Xueluo, who came to this town by mistake two years ago. The second time I met it, I calmed down to understand its history and feel its charm. It is an ancient town that has been developing since the Neolithic period, and Leonardo da Vinci spent his later years here.
He also passed away here. The town is small, the inhabitants still live in old, low buildings, and the mornings and nights are so peaceful that it sometimes gives the illusion that time and space have been reversed back hundreds of years. It is attached to development, and there is a row of frontage shops opposite the castle, where you can find chocolate shops, restaurants, cafés, and handmade shops.
Tourists from all over the world sit outside the restaurant and sip coffee at the castle and talk about it. At noon, vendors set up stalls at the foot of the castle, selling local delicacies and souvenirs, and performing arts bands sang joyful folk songs. Restaurant 1, the century-old Patisserie Bigot to escape the cold of the April morning.
Xueluo and Xiaoyue plunged headlong into this dessert shop. Originally, I just wanted to buy a bread to satisfy my hunger, but when I went in, I found that there was a cave in it and a room facing the street where I could eat, so I decided to take a break here. I have to say that France is the kingdom of desserts after all, even in this secluded town far from Paris, the lightning puffs are relatively coarse.
But the taste is also very good. Delicate French desserts, a cup of piping hot and rich coffee, this is the most satisfying morning in recent times. Later, I found out that the small shop that Xueluo and the others strayed into turned out to be a century-old store from 1913. 2. Amorino, an ice cream shop, came to Amboise two years ago when the snow fell.
The first time I tried Amorino ice cream, I thought it was the best ice cream I'd ever eaten in my life (now obsolete, and then the snow fell in Paris and I ate better ice cream than it was, see the distant Paris chapter for details). The chain is available all over France, but go back to the same store two years ago to relive the mood of that time.
It's wonderful. I thought about returning to Paris, but I never thought that I would come back to such an old town again. I took a photo of the ice cream I bought two years ago, and I couldn't get enough of it, so I went to buy another one the next day and took the same photo. 3. Restaurant Chez Bruno This restaurant is also the second time to visit.
At that time, there was no English menu, and when Xueluo saw French words like pork and duck, she thought that it was made of pork and duck, and she could eat it. After serving it and trying it, Xueluo couldn't help but be silent in front of the Château d'Amboise outside the window, it tasted exactly the same as pork liver, and it was cold. This time there was an English menu, and Xiaoyue said when she saw it, haha.
Xueluo knows what you're eating, and you're eating a mixture of pork liver and duck liver. So in the case of language barriers, you will really eat a lot of surprises. 4. Street foodAt noon, people will set up a stall at the foot of the wall of the Château d'Amboise to sell local food. At this moment, the sun also shows its face through the dark clouds, and the performers sing joyful songs on the side.
The town is full of life. Xueluo and Xiaoyue lined up to buy local sausages and bread, and sat on paper plates by the flowery city walls to eat. Hotel 1, Castle Hotel This castle is in the vicinity of a ten-minute drive, when a middle-aged man received the snow and the winter sunshine.
Bringing Yukiluo and Dongqingmei into the room gives a brief introduction, and tells them that the forest opposite Xueluo and Dongqingmei belongs to the castle. Xueluo always thought that this gentleman was a staff member of the hotel, because he was seen serving food to guests. Later, he tells Yukiro and Fuyurumi that he is the owner of the castle, and thinks it is their family's property.
He said, no, this castle was bought by Snowfall. A particularly humiliating thing happened here. Wanting to visit the castle, the two took the stairs without the elevator, and when they saw a door, they thought it was an exit and walked out. I didn't expect that the door was a one-way door, and I couldn't go back after I came out. The two of them stood on a large platform on the side of the castle, with a dark cave behind them.
Minutes passed, and there was no one. At first, he was quite calm and politely shouted, "May I ask anyone?" As time passed, no one passed, and there were only a few residents of this huge castle, and Xueluo also began to participate in the call for help, shouting help. After a long time, the owner of the castle came out.
Holding back a smile, he said to Xueluo, "Do you see a jungle behind you? There is a path in there, and you can walk down the path." "2. Cave B&B This very characteristic cave B&B is located at 24ruecamillebreton, which is a screenshot from the live street view of googlemaps. The trail on the left is this cave homestay.
The car was parked in the free parking space on the side of the road at the end, dragging the suitcase up the hill, and the man and his kitten came to welcome the snowfall. This B&B is where Snow Fall stayed two years ago. I don't know if you remember the news that a couple in Europe bought a cave for one euro and decorated it.
Make it your own home. Xueluo accidentally bumped into it, and it wasn't until he left that the man took the initiative to inform Xueluo that he remembered that the Xueluo mentioned in the news was this cave. The romance of a French man, when he gets up in the morning, he has already bought bread from the town and returned from it, set up the dishes, light candles, put on music, and wait for the snow to fall.
He also left a note in the snowfall room to tell him which restaurant was the best in the snowfall town. The castle is right up there, the silent castle where Snow Fall faces when he eats the plate of pork liver and duck liver mixture. It is a thousand years old, but it was not officially the property of the royal family until the time of Charles VII.
(Xueluo didn't know what year Charles VII was, and didn't want to look it up). Comrades, Xueluo is again mentioning François I, who spent his childhood in this castle. In the interjection, don't put too much faith in encyclopedia stuff, it often contradicts itself.
The encyclopedia says that François I was born at the Château d'Amboise. In fact, he was not born at the Château d'Amboise, but was brought there by his mother when he was four years old. Of course, don't believe in Xueluo, Xueluo is also hearsay, but Xueluo is from the Saint-Louis Foundation, which manages the Château d'Amboise, which is relatively reliable.
Xueluo and Dongqingmei already knew that François I was a king who was extremely passionate about Renaissance art, and he certainly did not let go of "touching" the castle where he had lived since childhood. Artists from Tiramisu's hometown also restored and decorated the castle. The story of François I and Leonardo da Vinci: How much did François I love art?
As soon as he ascended the throne, he invited the 64-year-old Leonardo da Vinci to settle down and gave him a manor. To Xueluo's surprise, there was an underground secret passage between the manor and the castle, and Xueluo and Xiaoyue walked from the ground, and it was only a ten-minute walk between the two places.
I can't help but think of rumors about Leonardo da Vinci's sexuality (purely irresponsible, don't be offended by Da Vinci fans). Leonardo da Vinci died here three years later, in the arms of François I (this is said to have been reproduced by Ingres many years later in a painting called "The Death of Leonardo da Vinci").
After his death, da Vinci was buried in the Diocese of St. Florentin next to the royal castle according to his will, and later this monastery was destroyed, and da Vinci's cemetery was also damaged.
For some reason, they put the remains of this Renaissance master on hold for many years before moving it to St. Hubert's Chapel, which is just a minute's walk away. Today, although the Diocese of St. Florentin is long gone, a bust of Leonardo da Vinci has been erected on its original site, marking the original location of the cemetery.