Tours to Rigney-Ussé


We had a nice breakfast that our hosts had laid out for us, blondin had to work that day and had had to get up at 5:30 to take the train, Marion was on her way to school, Matthew had needed to take his car in for repairs. We ended up eating breakfast with Emily, who's 14 or so.
Matthew ended up biking with us about 15 km, it was very nice to have him to talk to. I asked to go by the plaza that blondine talked about, where there was a burned bus from the riots. I took some pictures there. Very interesting! Then we went by some gypsy encampments, first some concrete huts that seemed completely deserted, then a whole section of travel trailers, a huge amount of them. I didn't see any people though.
We ended up stopping in villandry, a huge chateau with huge, very well developed gardens. We spent a lot of time there since we didn't have that far to go. We hung out and read in some sling chairs in the gardens, very nice.
There's been a huge amount of bikers on the trail, the most we've seen. I wonder if that lasts all the way to Nantes.
we got to the apartment, and I called the phone number from booking.com, to see if we could get in early. Almost all of these types of apartments only allow you in at 5:00 p.m. which is way too late in my opinion. The lady that answered the phone was very friendly, and told us how to get in. It's a very nice, newly renovated old barn, with old beams, stone walls etc. Very charming, though I've hit my head on the low ceilings and beams a couple times.
This is a very isolated area, there's no restaurants or anything nearby. Peter and I bike to a little tiny grocery store to get some food for dinner and breakfast.

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