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Fresh girolle mushrooms from La marché in Amboise. They are in the pan frying as I post. #amboise #loirevalleytourism #loirevalley #amboisemarket #chanterelles #girolles🍄

Cruising the Loire River

I spent the afternoon with a guide who took a group of us out for a fascinating tour of maritime history on the Loire River. I learned that there are portions of the river that are unnavigable. So, there would have had to have been portages for anything travelling up the river to Amboise. I got a chance to understand the flora and fauna of the river, see the city from the water, get e lesson in French military intelligence training (saumur is like the French Quantico) that allows for a major transition in the modern timeline with which I was struggling, got a taste of some local bubbly, and made some new friends! Also, a happy sign of good luck, a pair of swans passed by us while they swam in the river. Time well spent! #saumur #loirevalley #maritime #france

Sunrise, breakfast in the smallest cloister in Europe (factual), writing while waiting for the bus back to Saumur, café lunch before my historic river cruise. I have to tell you guys, I am exhausted, it is possible I have overdone it on the cheese, and my feet are killing me. I wore through my favourite pair of jeans walking so much in the past week. I can’t believe I have only been in France for seven days. After the train back to Amboise tonight, imma gonna lay around in my sweats, finish season 4 of Outlander, and sleep all day tomorrow. My heart may be full, but my 48-year-old body is like “WTF, lady?” #france #solotravel #loirevalley #saumur #fontevraud

Seeking, discovering, revealing the mysteries of Fontevraud Abbey. #france #loirevalley #fontevraudabbey #fontevraud

One of the most synchronistic moments of yesterday began long before Fontevraud. Remember the remnants of the treasury I discovered at Amboise and the boats? How I had really felt like I needed to stretch out now and spend a bit more time discovering the workings of the Medieval maritime culture along the Loire? Well, upon arrival in Saumur yesterday morning, I was greeted with an absolutely stunning sunrise and a cadre of flat-bottomed boats with a whole world of the maritime available to me. If all goes well and I get back from Fontevraud in time today, I am taking a cruise on a Medieval-style flat-bottomed boat along the Loire this afternoon. A history lesson in how people and goods would have moved along the river from Fontevraud via Saumur to Amboise. Serendipity!

The songs of Fontevraud.

Nighttime at the Abbey. #france #abbey #fontevraudabbey

The fires of Chateau Amboise warmed us all today.

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