Saturday, October 6, 2007

A Day in the Countryside around Barrou

Friday October 5, 2007

In 2 ½ hours and 100 kilometres today, we saw 8 chateaux, 3 ancient churches and 1 5000 year old dolmen. Today is also Tony & Jackie’s 17th wedding anniversary. Bonus! It was amazing to us the number and size of these chateaux in this small area. Most chateaux were privately owned, so inaccessible, but for most of them the façade is the key element anyway. For this entry, I will guide you through the pics I’ve entered for today.

The first castle we saw was in a little town south-west of us called La Guerche. It was a large edifice on the Creuse river, which rolls through our valley. Rather than a pic of the castle I’ve chosen a shot of the town around the chateau from the bridge over the Creuse.

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