Again, early morning mist from the river, but with the army of ducks laughed their taps around 7 am, I was out of bed by 8 am, with enough time to enjoy the quiet and the misty reflections on the river. Our first stop was to La Vallee Troglodytique des Goupillieres, a small collection of dwellings and farms discovered by the proprietor, Louis-Marie Chardon, as a child. He had since converted the caves and land to how they might of been, with a fruitful garden, an odd assortment of old farming equipment, and farm animals like goats, donkeys, pigs, and chickens. He was at hand to explain some of the more interesting details of the caves, with his obvious excitement about the magical place contagious. Then onwards on winding paths, along the Indre towards Loches, including
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