The vacation in the year 2012 should be a "little flatter" - that means vacation in the flat country. We thought, the valley of the Loire in France would be just the right place.
We booked with Interchalet a reasonably priced summer cottage near Chinon. Near- that means a lonesome hamlet in La Roche-Clermault, 6 kilometers away from Chinon. The cottage was not a palace but absolutely sufficient for 4 persons. It's notable: the house was in the midst of the winery of Monsieur Bruno Préveaux.
There are a lot of palaces and castles in the surroundings. Many vineyards there look like small chateaux, and in the great and big castles was written a considerable part of the French history.
Chinon itself is located at the river Vienne, an affluent of the Loire,a picturesque, medieval town with a big castle high above the city and many small streets, lanes and squares.
The surroundings of the cottage is lovely and bicycle-friendly. You can easily bike on asphalted roads and farm tracks between vineyards and grainfields. You pass small hamlets, villages and lonesome farms. But it's only right at nice weather. We had'nt every day. Almost every day we had one rain shower, at least!
Monsieur Préveaux' excellent red and rosé wine took comfort in the bad weather. And the visits in the marvellous castles and abbeys were a good compensation for rain, wind and low temperatures.
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