ESCAPADE ANGEVINE

Nous avons changé nos plans initiaux de vacances en Bretagne en juin mais avons pu nous offrir une escapade de deux jours près d'Angers. Arrivée fin de matinée mardi et après un déjeuner face au château chez Pont Pont une jolie visite.

We changed our plans about a week in Brittany in June but we've been lucky to spend two days near Angers. We visited the castle, a funny exhibition about mermaids and could see the beauty of the Tapisserie of Apocalypse after a delicious meal in Pont Pont restaurant.

If you want to see more, here is the link to the English website

https://www.chateau-angers.fr/en

alpinisme pour désherber les douves !

I chose melon and ham (DH voting for a spinach velouté)

then a delicious quail and

a strawberry soup with ice cream

The visit of the tapestry galery is just breath taking, made in 1380 more than 100 m long, the designs, details, colors, everything is amazing.

more than 7 years of work, of course some pieces have been lost

or cut to use on horse backs or to protect orange trees!

but it's great that almost 650 years later I can watch it in a closer view

I love the way they designed the water, the details on the flowers

and the background of the scenes

Visite époustouflante des galeries de présentation de la tapisserie de l'apocalypse. 68 scènes sont exposées sur les 90 originelles. Magnifique réalisation (plus de 7 années de travail). 

A temporary exhibition about mermaids was fun too.

Exposition temporaire

"le chant des ondes" sur les sirènes.

We spent the night in the château de Tourlandry (we had a travel box gift never used and adding more money we managed to get a nice Napoléon III style bedroom). The place is cosy but the rain invited itself at the end of the afternoon so no picnic in the garden.

The owners said they didn't get our reservation for diner (I think the truth is more that they didn't want to cook for only 2 guests) so we bought some food and planned to eat in the garden but a big showering rain came at 19 and stayed...  Has any rain stopped me to do what I want, no way, we run under the porch and had our meal under it!

and on Wednesday afternoon reached Brissac for one more castle to discover.

If you want to see more, here is the link to the English website

https://brissac.net/en/

7 étages, ce qui en fait le plus haut château de la Vallée de la Loire

et un mélange architectural dû à la construction du château

baroque entre les tours médiévales.

Seven stories and a mixed architecture as they build a baroque castle

between the medieval towers.

Tapisseries des Gobelins

Balcon pour orchestre

La Veuve Cliquot

Tableau horloge, vue de Brissac dans un paysage rêvé

Salle de concert et cuisines.

Lunch at the restaurant "La luciole", a lovely place, nice menu and the restaurant staff was very kind.

salade de légumes grillées / tarte fine oignons-ricotta-courgettes

filet de lieu et tiramisu fraise-rhubarbe

La luciole, restaurant de St Mathurin sur Loire, nous a réservé un très bon accueil, délicieux menu (e/p/d pour 19.80 euros), un personnel aux petits soins (ou oignons à votre gré), la preuve en photos !

After leaving the "Napoléon III" bed and breakfast we stopped at "Lalie and Laly" in Chemillé to buy some DMC threads I need for a new project on perforated paper.

Après une nuit dans notre chambre Napoléon III, un petit arrêt à la mercerie de Chemillé "Lalie et Laly" pour me fournir en fil DMC pour un futur projet sur papier perforé. Nous sommes près de Cholet, capitale du mouchoir, d'où le mur de présentation à gauche garni de nombreux modèles.

Two wonderful visits, delicious meals and one haberdashery!  The best recipe for a perfect mid-week for me!