This is the castle of Chinon. I love it, think it's beautiful (also, this is a particulary great picture I just stole off google images...looks like a painting!). Difference in culture though, the French people could care less about it. I guess it's just become...normal for them, having beautiful pieces of archituecture everywhere, that are older than my whole country :P.
I took this picture standing on the tower of the castle, showing off the Vienne river and some of the houses on it's banks.
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| La Vienne river is home to a lot of fish, and therefore, fisherman. They have little, delightfully traditional wooden boats. |
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| A stamp from 1993, showing off the castle. pretty :). |
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| Thin, winding cobblestoned roads here. Almost all the construction is done with limestone, which is a beautiful white stine, but also a very soft one, lots of erosion. |
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| The main crops here seem to be grapes for wine, and sunflowers. Rolling fields covered in a sea of swaying yellow is quite a sight. |
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