Wow!! and Damn!!! we were up that way yesterday to see a client planning a tour and to check out the fritillaries. We got as far as Montsoreau. If only we’d gone that bit further!
Rosemary Kneipp
March 25th, 2014 at 5:11 pm
What a pity! My post was one day too late. Next time! It’s really worth the detour I can tell you!
PS. Wouldn’t they have just walked around the shaft? It would have been a hole just big enough to get the stones down, not a great trench. It’s the equivalent of the jitte de pressoir, but for stones.
Rosemary Kneipp
March 25th, 2014 at 5:11 pm
You’re probably right. But how do the people on the platform get up and down?
g’day from a beautiful Brisbane amuutn Sunday. Breakfast in the garden with Jane W and Jane J all of us planning for our 2012 European Adventure. and me, looking forward to lunch under the trees in the Tuileries on a sunny Paris afternoon.
I’d heard of troglodyte dwellings in the Loire but I had no idea of their history or that they had shopping centres! Amazing stuff Rosemary and just like most other commenters, I’ll have to put them on my never ending list of places to visit…one day. Thanks for linking up to #AllAboutFrance, I hope you’re having/have had a great trip down under.
Wow!! and Damn!!! we were up that way yesterday to see a client planning a tour and to check out the fritillaries. We got as far as Montsoreau. If only we’d gone that bit further!
What a pity! My post was one day too late. Next time! It’s really worth the detour I can tell you!
PS. Wouldn’t they have just walked around the shaft? It would have been a hole just big enough to get the stones down, not a great trench. It’s the equivalent of the jitte de pressoir, but for stones.
You’re probably right. But how do the people on the platform get up and down?
This is so cool! I don’t know what else to say…it’s just COOL!
I quite agree!
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g’day from a beautiful Brisbane amuutn Sunday. Breakfast in the garden with Jane W and Jane J all of us planning for our 2012 European Adventure. and me, looking forward to lunch under the trees in the Tuileries on a sunny Paris afternoon.
How interesting! I’d love to visit these troglodyte structures. Thanks for posting – I’ll have to add it to my list.
There’s always a new place to add to the list, isn’t there? It was a wonderful find!
Wow, what a trip through time. I’ve never seen anything like it. Thanks for sharing these photographs!
You’re very welcome. It was quite extraordinary and so unexpected!
I’d heard of troglodyte dwellings in the Loire but I had no idea of their history or that they had shopping centres! Amazing stuff Rosemary and just like most other commenters, I’ll have to put them on my never ending list of places to visit…one day. Thanks for linking up to #AllAboutFrance, I hope you’re having/have had a great trip down under.
We have done some cycling along the Loire and seen some troglodyte dwellings, but nothing quite like this. I might have to go back! #AllAboutFrance