Wales 2009 Chateaux Page
| Seven chateaux in three days | It's hard to believe they built on that scale, but the buildings are still there to prove it. |
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BLOIS (a little bit of many styles) |
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CHAUMONT - very story-book and with a garden-art show, too. |
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| Caernarfon Castle, view from the river. | Caernarfon Castle from the square. (grayish day--very unusual.) |
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| PenRhyn Castle, near Bangor (above and below) | 4th picture taken the following week. Vines on building starting to leaf out. |
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AZAY LE RIDEAU -- I remembered it as a jewel from when I was there as a teen. |
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CHINON--called the royal fortress, this is now an archeological dig and construction site. |
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CHENONCEAU--it was really crowded, and rightly so. |
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A little upstairs-downstairs. (Wilbur didn't tend to take pictures in the sumptuously decorated rooms). |
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| FOUGERES (a stop while I ferreted out some ham sandwiches on a Sunday afternoon.) | |
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CHAMBORD --imposing and confusing. |
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