Driving from Blois to Vouvray

It was late May 2001. We drove on the autoroute to get from the airport to the Loire Valley. Then we got off the autoroute at Blois. We drove from there to Vouvray on the route nationale along the Loire river. We were early and we weren't in a hurry. The weather was beautiful.

Two of the most impressive sights along the route were the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire and the Château Royal d'Amboise. The river was smooth and shiny.

Fields of red poppies were all around us. This one was just outside Vouvray as we drove into the village. In the year 2000, I had bought myself a new digital camera, a Kodak DC4800, and I was enjoying taking pictures with it.

There were a lot of other wildflowers too. The woman we rented the Vouvray gîte from had put the arrangement you see on the right above on the mantle of the fireplace in the gîte.