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Springtime in the Loire Valley: Château de Chenonceau

June 10, 2019by Jeparlefranglais 3 Comments

This is Part 3 of a 3 part series on my springtime trip to the Loire Valley. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here… I’ve saved the […]

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Springtime in the Loire Valley: Three More Châteaux

May 28, 2019by Jeparlefranglais 1 Comment

Our visit to three more châteaux in the Loire Valley: Château de Villandry, Château Azay-Le-Rideau, and Château d’Amboise

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The Château de Montrésor, overlooking the village, with the church in the background. This village is classified as one of the 159 “Most Beautiful Villages of France”.

Traveling in the middle of winter and in the middle of a pandemic is not ideal, but there is one benefit - seeing beautiful villages like these with not-a-person in sight. Read more about how we managed to do a socially-distant road trip last month (pre-lockdown) on my latest blog post (link in bio)...

Looking at these first little signs of spring in the woods…

I’ve been hearing rumors of another lockdown coming, so we’re enjoying the great outdoors while we can...

Life in France is not always a garden of roses (though they can be beautiful). My latest hurdle to establishing French residency was taking an official French test (le test d’evaluation de français or TEF for short). Given that I haven’t taken a French class in over 20 years, this turned out to be an interesting experience. Find out all about it on my latest blog post (link in bio)…

The weatherman was finally right! We got snow today! ❄️

The Jardin des Tuileries peacefully blanketed under a layer of snow 3 years ago. With snow in the weather forecast tomorrow, will this happen again? Stay tuned... ❄️

2020 as a whole has been pretty terrible, but I’m grateful for the little things, such as being able to explore this little corner of Portugal earlier this year, pre-COVID. Thank you @jwabroad and @kaniciacognard for being such great tour guides and taking to some of your favorite areas in the Algarve - it’s easy to see why they were your faves!

I can’t believe that this has been my first post in months. Maybe because I’m usually inspired by travel, and that has been pretty non-existent in 2020 (the exception being this wonderful trip to Seville in January pre-COVID). But there have been little things to be thankful for - specifically being able to return to France after being stuck in the US for 3 months with 4 flights cancelled. Now that we’re back, I’m cautiously planning a trip for the first time in over 6 months. Still unsure on the destination, but it’s definitely going to within driving distance and somewhere where we can spend the majority of our time outdoors and socially distant. And as modest as this is, it’s is giving me the energy to get going again...

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