Bonjour
tout le monde!
3rd
Day Bus tour
June
8, 2016
Well this bus tour is just continuing to be amazing (besides
the super sketchy hotel that we stayed at last night). Today we got to go to
two different châteaux. The first was in Anger.
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| The outside of the château d'Angers |
This château was more of a fortress than a castle. We
started the day off looking around the town, getting some lunch, and looking
inside the cathedral. It will never cease to amaze me how every single town has
such a beautiful cathedral.
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| The cathedral of Angers |
We were able to get a tour of the château of Anger.
Actually, we mainly got a tour of the tapestries that are held there, which are
called the Apocalyptic Tapestries. They are the oldest and largest tapestries
that have been preserved. They depicted many different scenes from the book of
revelations, and we were able to learn how they were created and the importance
and meaning of them.
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| The tapestry inside of the château |
After the château of Anger we went to the beautiful château
d’Ussé. This château is the Sleeping Beauty Castle. Beforehand, I had thought
that the sleeping beauty castle was in Germany.
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| The château d'Ussé |
However, that one is the one
that Disney based their castle off of. The château d’Ussé was the inspiration
for the author of Sleeping Beauty. The castle truly was beautiful. It was
interesting because they had mannequins in many of the different rooms. They
also had this whole staged sleeping beauty story in the towers of the castle
which was really interesting, and a little bit creepy.
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| The staged presentations |
Also, we had some fun
out on the bridge and the road in front of the castle, as it was flooded over
which provided for some prime picture taking.
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| Yay for flooded roads |
Next, we had another very large and fancy French dinner. I
liked this one quite a bit more than the one we had yesterday. The hotel we
stayed in was quite bad, but not as bad as the day before so I guess that’s a
tiny improvement. It is amazing how fast this week has gone by already.
À Bientôt,
Claire
Hunsaker
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