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My Montresor

lindaglamour
May 23, 2016
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I arrived in Montresor after a four and half hour drive from Lyon. Fortunately unaffected by the french petrol strike, the rhino and I sailed the autoroute to the little village of Montresor. While Provence villages are all honey coloured stone and roughly hewn stone, the Loire villages are different. There is an 18th century wash over the buildings. While the sky is blue and the surrounding forests and plant life are verdant green, the buildings are all shades of white, grey, greyer and slate.

Montresor has a Boulangerie, a Tabac, one restaurant (closed unless its the high season) and a Chateau.

There is also a 12th Century church built by the founder of the Chateau and grand father to Diane de Poitiers.

My abode here for three nights is a restored 17th century gamekeepers cottage. It is sweet and welcoming. A baguette, framboise jam and peonies welcome me and I feel right home. The cottage comes with the use of the "Big House' gardens including the discovery of medieval hermits caves and expanse of lawn and trees that obliterate any thought of work or stress.

I didn't know this was on my bucket list until I had done it - lying in a field of long grass, white daisies and buttercups being warmed by the sun hearing the Church bell ring as it has done since before the 12th century. One could hear the soft passing of the river Indrois near by.