Day 10 – Laundry! Saumur & Rochecotte

It’s day 10 – which means 1/3 into the trip which means laundry day.  I did make sure that Saumur had a laundry mat and schedule the day accordingly.

Everything was controlled from one big machine on the wall – pretty cool.

With clean clothes we then headed to the Chateau in Saumur – which I have a really hard time pronouncing!  I mean really hard time. It is a storybook castle.

You might recognize it from the Duke of Berry’s Book of Hours:

There is a cafe outside of the castle and for lunch I had the salmon salad.

I accidentally ordered noodles – I still don’t know how.

I found that my new favorite dessert is the floating island – meringue and custard!

Like so many castles it is better from the outside than the inside – very much designed for children – lots of ‘fun’ things and museum things but not as striking as from the outside.  They have been doing a lot of renovation so maybe in a few years…

Our next stop was the Chateau Rochecotte.  This is a castle hotel that we stayed at before and also allowed us to film.  Very nice – very elegant.

Tonight was about filming a ‘fine’ meal – and this was one of the finest we had.  They allowed us to film at dinner.

First they brought us these tasting appetizers (that we didn’t order).

Then I had a carpaccio of Fois Gras and Tuna.

Then to the lamb!

And the cheese course.

You have to tell them what you want – I influence but let them take me on a tour.

After they tell you what order to eat the cheeses in!

Then the dessert…

And the dessert that comes after the dessert!

Remember folks – this is work! Though I do get to eat it 🙂

We have had lots of questions about menus so I am posting this one:

Trip tally: 1395KM traveled.  26 places visited (14 castles, 3 cathedrals, 4 prehistoric  sites + 5 places of cultural significance).

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