I am counting my visits to France. I have visited France three times. The first time in the 1980s as an archetypal tourist, only for three days and I don’t remember much except Monet’s Water Lilies and a room in Paris.
My second visit was for three weeks in 2015 which in hindsight feels more like three months because I saw many places. I had become interested in history and in particular in Amboise, 16 kilometers from Tours in Central France and I stayed in a studio nestled into the ramparts of the Château d’Amboise. The weather was nice, late Spring and I needed only a cardigan to walk. Bliss. I began building virtual models of chateaux of the Loire region with a friend using photography from this visit. Le Château de Chenonceau, like every chateau, tells some of the story of the history of France and was a highlight. At the end of an afternoon at Chenonceaux we sat on the remote train station bench and took more photos with the phone, as the camera battery had been depleted. I wanted to live in France at this moment. In fact, it is Centre-Val de Loire where I would like to live, in central France. My third and present visit has been for nine months and has convinced me of this fact.
I’ll keep you posted ..
From la gare de Chenonceaux
