Pronounced "Patter-EE-koh"
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No one was passing that lord’s toll booth without paying.
SPQR (768505) — 9/1/2013 @ 4:54 pmGuarantee the wife would expect me to hear her and come running from anywhere in that fastness.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 9/1/2013 @ 6:50 pmHey,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/1/2013 @ 7:07 pmYou know how some radio hosts have their group cruises and such…
I think we should have a PP group tour of Switzerland!!
No bike riding for JD while we are there. Who knows how fast he would go down a mountainside.
Wow! What great pictures. Brings back fond memories. Hope you had a blast on your visit.
WarEagle82 (2b7355) — 9/1/2013 @ 7:36 pmI hope you haven’t grown a pony tail and taken up bike riding.
🙂
Jcw46 (6106c6) — 9/1/2013 @ 8:47 pmChâteau de Chenonceau: Most beautiful Château in the Loire, and the Loire is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
glenn (647d76) — 9/1/2013 @ 9:30 pmHow about just mowing the lawn? The wife probably won’t see you until she is well over it.
Check out the panorama view. chateau-chenonceau
Or sweeping the sidewalk? Taking the trash to the curb would be an all day chore.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 9/2/2013 @ 1:12 amCompliments to the photographer.
mg (31009b) — 9/2/2013 @ 2:20 amI rented a row boat and took my daughters on a cruise around Chenonceau … wonderful!
quasimodo (97433f) — 9/2/2013 @ 8:17 amGreetings:
Is that where Hollande is doing the catering for President Obama’s Great Syrian Adventure ???
11B40 (ba53e9) — 9/2/2013 @ 9:24 amI’d love to go back to Paris and the Loire, but next time I want a guide who speaks French well. Did anyone hire guides like this on their trip?
Patricia (be0117) — 9/2/2013 @ 11:13 amIf you visit Villandry, you might enjoy eating here: http://www.letapegourmande.com/en/restaurant_letape_gourmande_menus.html
AZ Bob (c99389) — 9/2/2013 @ 11:43 amPatricia #11 – ‘Ow meh Aie be uv sairveece to yu onn a treep laik zees ?
(My French is sufficiently fluent to teach sailing to french folk in l’Archipel des Glénan in France – a tad rusty now, but the accent remains strongly from-some-other-part-of-France – with thanks to the dames d’un certain âge at the Institut Francais d’Ecosse in Glasgow last millennium)
Alastor (2e7f9f) — 9/2/2013 @ 2:40 pmPatricia: no guides. We had to make do on my listening to a couple of months of tapes. Not great but better than nothing.
Patterico (9c670f) — 9/2/2013 @ 2:41 pmI liked it when I worked around a Swiss postdoc a couple of years ago back East. I told her I understood a little, since I had had three years of German in high school.
“I don’t speak German,” she exclaimed, indignant.
When I got home I started to this story to a German colleague of mine. I had just started when he exclaimed “But Swiss isn’t German!,” very indignantly.
And yes, SF, German-style Swiss is just one of the four languages spoken there.
Simon Jester (1a5c20) — 9/2/2013 @ 3:00 pmAlastor, merci!
I speak enough Italian to get by, but French is just beyond me. Maybe I’ll try my tapes again, Patrick.
Patricia (be0117) — 9/3/2013 @ 8:23 amVisited Chenonceau on my honeymoon in ’92. The way the chateau reflects in the river, I had a picture upside-down in my album for years before I noticed.
Pious Agnostic (ac89e5) — 9/3/2013 @ 10:29 amAmazing. One of my favorite sights in the world. If you have a chance, drive into Saumur during sunset. The chateau there is lit up and it’s really magical.
carlitos (49ef9f) — 9/3/2013 @ 10:34 am