It’s a wonderful little town in the Loire, and it being market day got us acclimatised pretty quickly.
But first the little house where we’re staying – right next to the Fortress.
With views.
And croissants for breakfast (of course).
As I said, Chinon is lovely.
But vegetarians may wish to look away ….,
So nice to hear the French speaking to the Germans in English! Apparently the British have only started coming back in the past couple of weeks but there seems to be plenty of us. And a family from Texas. But we do seem to be genuinely welcome which is nice. Apart from the market stallholder who really did not want to sell us a single (large) tomato for our picnic and made his feelings abundantly clear and made us buy 2…