Our last trip in Europe...

Daddy and Jack outside Sully Sur Loire Chateaux

The little man outside our cottage

Mommy and sweet Jack

Stopping off for a drink in Orleans

Orleans

Chateaux Sully Sur Loire

Daddy and Jack on the grounds of Chambord Chateaux

Chambord

Jack outside the cottage

Well our last trip in Europe - for a few years anyway!

Just back from Loire Valley France. This trip was to celebrate our 2nd anniversary, which was October 12.

What amazing countryside. Chateaux after chateaux. We visited 3 while we were there.

We stayed in a cottage that dates back to 1700's. Unbelievable! The owners, Remi and Frederique were great. Remi is a local practitioner. He treated Jack while we were there. He had an ear infection that did not seem to want to go away. But the good doc straightened him out.

We went to Chambord. WOW! That is all i can say....

We visited some small villages. Beaugency being my favorite. It's an old medieval village. No english spoken........anywhere in the region! Well, in Orleans, they some of the people can speak a little bit of english. The people were so nice. I was very surprised b/c i found them to be very rude in Paris.

Our last day was spent in Orleans. You can certainly see that New Orleans' French Quarter is modeled after Orleans. It's a great little city. Lots of shopping, dining and sheer pleasure in just walking around the town looking at the architecture.

Oh, and the white wine, fantasitc. Loire Valley is well known for their whites.

I was a bit surprised that we didn't see many vineyards. I think the majority of them are west of where we stayed.

We enjoyed the week. We stayed at the cottage some days and just relaxed. Built a nice fire...it was a bit chilly there.

What a way to spend our last trip in Europe while on work assignment.......

And to top it off, we got lost on our way to the airport in Paris. Pretty rough when you can't stop and ask for directions. Well, you can, but unless you speak French, you are shit out of luck!!!

Needless to say we finally found our way and made it to the airport - on time! But cutting it very close.