Amboise Travel Blogs

To stay a night at the chateau hotel was one of our purposes traveling in France like a princess...but my little princess got high fever at that moment, so seems she was sickness princess.However she ask me "Mom,can you see the princess in me?" Yes,yes....We couldn't enjoy fully at the chateau hote…

You know how every city has a "claim to fame", typically with residents? Well, Amboise is no Hollywood, but its popular residents included the last few years of Leonardo da Vinci, and more recently Mick Jagger who purchased a chateau. Despite such stellar residents (doh!), I wouldn't give this…

Next, we went out to Amboise Castle. The main thing I wanted to see here was the tomb of Leonardo Da Vinci, but the castle and gardens were great as well. It is a shame so much of the Castle has been lost over the years. The view of the river is amazing here as well. We had a very good and cheap s…

We're staying at a bed & breakfast in Amboise, a market town with a notable chateau, for the next few days.  I'm told that Leonardo da Vinci retired here, and that the duke of France, who would be king if they still had a monarchy, currently lives here. I've noticed that th…

After we'd all piled back on the van-bus (I don't know what else to call it!), the driver took us to Amboise.  Atop a hill looking otu over the town and the Loire River sits Château d'Amboise, one of the wonders of the town.  This château is a medieval fortress turned royal residence ba…

In the beginning of my travels in Europe, I only wanted see Paris..but I was wrong.

After years of research, I was finally able to trace my family history and discussed this find with my sisters. We set off to discover the land of our ancestors starting, of course, in Paris, the city of lights.

More castles...

A few days drive around Northern France

The Clos Luce is a manor house where Leonardo da Vinci, at the invitation of King Francois I,  spent his last years. The Manor not only displays where Leonardo lived, but they have on display inside the manor and on the grounds, models of Leonardo's most noted inventions and paintings.