Scenery of Southern France ~ Town of Blois

The town of Blois is also located in the Loire Valley and is an important destination on our trip. It is not too far from the Chambord and Chenonceau castles we visited, so we stayed here for two nights.

 

The town is not too big, and the hotel is right in the center of the town. The hotel is small, but the name is very domineering. The house in the hotel looks very old, and the room is not too big. In the morning, I was drying my hair and heating hot water. He actually blew out the fuse. It would be a big sin to set this centuries-old house on fire.

 

Almost all foreign hotels don’t have yards or parking lots. Buying parking tickets for roadside parking was another test for us. We didn’t know why we couldn’t buy it after trying several times. At this time, a black guy told us that we didn’t need to buy it because the police had already arrived. After get off work, we are law-abiding citizens, so don’t take advantage of this small advantage. Besides, there is no charge from 6 o’clock in the evening to 9 o’clock the next morning.

Opposite the hotel is a park in the middle of the street, with bonsai-like but extremely tall trees, and a small church. Across the street is the famous Royal Castle of Blois. Anyway, the most important thing in the Loire Valley is the castle.

After checking in, we wandered around the town. At the end of the main road, there was a tall staircase with a pattern of "Mona Lisa" painted on it. It was probably a leisure place for residents. When you look at it from a distance, you can see people often standing on the Mona Lisa. Lisa's face looked so disgusting.

 

I was walking around in various shops on the commercial street. My sister was sitting on the street chatting with an old lady. The old lady was originally from Cantonese. When she was a few years old, she went to Laos to do business with her father. Later she got married and started a family. However, her husband was killed by the US military in Saigon. He was killed in a bombing. He raised his daughter with him. Later, his daughter came to France. When the old lady was 60, she came to France to visit her grandson. She probably did well in business. It is said that she bought 7I bought a house, but I died of cancer two years ago. It was really hard for this old lady, but she seemed to be in good health and she was quite open-minded. Now I receive 800 from the French government every month. Euro pension.

 

When it was dinner time, we saw an Italian restaurant. My sister loves pizza, so we chose this one without hesitation. French restaurants rarely have English menus, and the waiters also have limited English, so ordering is a challenge, sometimes. With the help of other diners, we finally asked the waiter to decide what to eat. Fortunately, the pizza he recommended was really delicious.

 

Dinner the next day was the same. This time I found a restaurant on Dianping, which was not far from our small hotel. This time it had an English menu, but you may not know all the English words on the menu. Fortunately, I continued to use my secret weapon, which was WeChat translation, and I ordered a few dishes without even guessing. The waiter didn't understand any English at all. Even if we ordered late, he still had to compare the French menu with us.

 

I ordered the most famous beef tartare and after posting my dinnerPO in the circle of friends, everyone became very curious about this dish. Later I said don’t worry about whether this dish tastes good or not. Eat, at least the effect is achieved.

 

 

In addition to the Royal Castle, the town of Blois also has the Episcopal Church of St. Louis. I don’t know what day it was. I missed the performance in the chapel across the street, but I watched an a cappella chorus in the cathedral. The church was solemn and solemn, and the singing Holy and melodious.

 

 

Finally, let’s talk about the Royal Castle of Blois. Compared with Chambord and Chenonceau, this castle is really small and the area is not too big. There are no sculptures, no gardens, and no waterways around it, but this The square building is one of the oldest castles in the Loire Valley. A series of events that happened here in history have made this castle the most mysterious miniature of the Middle Ages.

 

At the entrance of the castle is a relief sculpture of Louis XII on horseback, and on one side of the prism there is a pattern of a hedgehog carrying a crown, symbolizing Louis XII.

 

The castle was started by Louis XII, but later François I's wife Queen Claude moved in, so the François I wing was built. The most famous one is this spiral staircase, yes, and the shampoo bar. Same as Fort.

 

There is a light show at the Blois Castle every night. It gets dark at 10:30 pm now, so the light show will be on at night. 11 It started at 10:00 p.m. The light show was also a storytelling session, but it was all in French and the headphones were only in English, so I just watched for fun. The first part was probably about some love stories, and the second part was probably about the assassination of the Duke of Guise. The Duke of Guise wanted to rebel, but was assassinated by the king's assassin at the foot of the kingdom's bed.