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June 15th 2010
Published: June 15th 2010
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. Yes yes, I know, slack. Sorry. No excuses really (unless you count being too busy gallivanting around?). Although we're a good 2 weeks on I'll pick up where the last blog left off so that you don't miss any of our unmissable adventure... From Almeria we trained our way through Spain up to Madrid. Although most people had told us that Madrid wasn't really anything special, we thought we'd be... Read Full Entry



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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 348Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 348
Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 348
Photo play 4. The end.
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 351
A staircase in the chateau
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 353
Inside the chateau courtyard
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 359
Blois cathedral
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 360
The house of acrobats, Blois (dates from 15th century)
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 364
Looking back at Blois from the other side of the river
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 365
Chateau Chambord - this was the most amazing double helix staircase - 2 sets of stairs winding round each other
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 368
The roof of Chambord, looking up from the keep (inside the walls)
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 369
Drew touching the oldest door in the world (this is not a fact. But it is a door from the 1500's)
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 370
I realised we hadn't taken any photos from inside palaces/chateaux/houses on the whole trip. So this is the conjugal bed of Louis XIV of France and one (maybe more?) of his wives
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 371
The view from the roof of Chambord
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 372
Chambord's shadow
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 374
The top of the central (double helix) staircase, Chambord
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 375
View in another direction from the roof, Chambord
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 378
Chambord
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 380
Chambord - hunting lodge or fairytale castle?
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 384
An 'animal lookout' in the grounds of Chambord - more like an awesome mai mai
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 388
The view of Chambord from our lunch spot
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 390
Jo and Chambord
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 391
Chateau de Cheverny
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Madrid, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Brighton, London, June 2010 392
Inside Cheverny - Drew and a 6000 year old proto-elk which was found in an Icelandic glacier - the height of the antlers is the height of the real thing



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