Blois Travel Blogs

The town of Blois is touristy based on the branded shops scattered around the small town. The most popular attraction of course is the Château de Blois.  We rushed through our lunch at 3pm at a nice petite café beside the château fearing that we will not be able to explore well the place…

Why does this always happen to me?? Seriously! Just when I was about to write off the Loire Valley as overhyped and a drag and monotonous, along come 2 reasons for me not to - Angers described in the previous entry and now, Blois, yet another darling little town. I do wonder what would've been…

Day 2 of the château tour took us back to the Blois area.  Our first stop was another extravagant château, Château de Chambord.  This château, huge in size, was built for King François I for use as a hunting lodge.  A lodge, are you kidding me?  This is by far the largest c…

5.3.09  Happy Birthday to Me- and leaving Paris  (rhymes if you say “Paris” in the French way- “Pear-E”)   5:30 am- Up to drive Ned to the metro for his flight home.  Ugh!  I am not an early person and it is always just so sad and depressing to see him go.  F…

Travelling around Europe for 2weeks (AMS-GER-FRANCE-BELGIUM). Exciting country for most of its medieval architecture, chateau and cultural sites which deserves protection for the benefit of all humanity. So, lets start to drive around and see some part of Europe.

I have many more to add from various trips but this is a start. I highly recommend taking a train to Blois because there are castles everywhere and this is just one of them.

Blois can be summarized in two words:light show!

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

We have been having a magical time exploring the Loire Valley. It's famous for it's castles and if we had the time, I'd love to see them all.. We have picked the most popular. We based ourselves in Blois (Ble-wha) for two days. We went to a Magic Museum and watched some shows there. Blois is…

A few days drive around Northern France

More castles...