What are we doing?

This has been in planning for a long time. Long service leave had to be taken, letters written to schools, bikes bought and upgraded, camping gear sorted, the vagaries of the SNCF elucidated and, of course, a whole lot of work work and housework completed.
If all goes well we will fly to Paris, train to Bordeaux then commence cycling (each on our own bike now that Noah is capable) east and south till we get to Provence 7 weeks later.
Along the way we will camp, stay in gites (one in the Dordogne and one in the Luberon), follow the market days and eat and drink very well. Hopefully the Euro crashes!
If the kids have any say, and they usually do, we will eat a pain au chocolat (chocolate croissant) each morning

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

What is this famous chateau?

The weather got too hot for us wimpy tasmanians in southern France
and, as we also had to start our trek towards Paris, we gypsied
ourselves to southern Burgundy. This is north of Lyon but not as far
as Dijon. We are staying at the municipal campsite just outside of
Cluny. Within walking distance there is a lovely, cheap restaurant
where we ate frogs legs last night (panfried with garlic and parsley).
Just behind the campsite is the voie verte, a cycleway built on the
old rail grading that goes for kms.
Today we rode to cormatin to see the gardens at this chateau. As it
was flat, and I was able to mostly true her front wheel, Alice came
for her first ride in weeks. It was nice for her.
Does anyone know what movie this chateau was in? It's really a
familiar sight but we can't remember where we saw it.
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