Dinner Menu:
- Salade de tomates et cottage cheese
- Salade verte
- Baguette
- Carré de chocolat noir 85%
- Eau (plate)
As I mentioned yesterday we spent the weekend visiting the Chateaux de la Loire. Although I have seen most of them before I am never tired of seeing them. Over the weekend we saw 5 in the following order:
- Chambord
- Chenonceaux
- Azay le ridaux
- Vilandry
- Amboise
Our agreed order of preference based on which ones we would want to live in was: 2, 3, 5, 4, 1. For an architecture student (like myself!) I found the different styles, structures and settings quite amazing. I also wonder where are the equivalent buildings of today? I know we don't have aristocrats anymore who need these buildings to justify their status but we certainly have megalomaniac politicians and billionaires. I wonder what a modern chateaux might look like ?
Weren’t you just in LA? That’s gotta the best place for seeing modern day châteaux’s
ReplyDeleteLA is bling-bling rather than elegant
DeleteYeah but my point is Bling bling is the modern day equivalent of building big chateaux ‘s to demonstrate status
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