France Trip March 2018 Day 4

Day 4 - Villandry, Chinon, d'Usse and d'Arzay
This is our last day of visiting and we tried to see as many more castles as we can
However, coupled with the cold Europe winter and rainy day, there's some challenges and we had to use some imagination in our visits =)

Villandry - castle 4 in visit list

Pamphlet of Villandry

This is the last castle and with time constraint, we only went into the garden instead of the Chateau.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Villandry

The entire garden view

The gardens are vast and i can imagine spectacular if all the flowers are blooming. As such, the postcard is prettier =)

Post card of how it could look...

Chateau de Villandry - actual during visit

The chateau and the gardens from the side

The different hearts garden, that's quite cool

Impressive landscaping

Some early bloomers

After visiting Villandry, we head off to see Chateau D'Azay Le Rideau.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27Azay-le-Rideau
we didn't enter but grab a quick photo from the outside.
This Chateau is famous for looking like it's floating on its own as it's built on an island in the lake.

Chateau D'Azay Le Rideau

The Chateau blooming tulips!

After this, we went to see Chateau d'Usse which inspires many disney castles designs. This one is probably the prettiest castle in this trip from the outside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_d%27Ussé

Chateau d'Usse

Chateau from the side

After this, we head off to Chinon town (which isn't very exciting)

Chinon Fortress

We then went back to Amboise for a free wine tasting event.

Wine tasting event in Amboise

All in all, this has been a great week and i got a summary of the castles that we visited. There's still some that we missed but we certainly put check marks in a bunch of them =)

Summary of castles

As we head off to Barcelona, I saw some of the most spectacular sunrise.

Spectacular sunrise in Loire

Starting with this trip, we had some adventures coming to France as the freeway was cut off at Girona by parties that's pro Independent. Ironically, coming back, they also hack the toll booths and we didn't need to pay the tolls from France to Spain. It is certainly not boring being in Catalunya in its time of turmoil.