Miscellaneous Tips, Centre

To call this a "bed and breakfast is somewhat demeaning. This IS a REAL CHATEAU!. and it is really on the Loire!(see our pictures). We have stayed at the Colliers 3 times and have enjoyed its friendly and restful ambience. We show the riverside of the chateau onto which our bedroom has always opened (request it). On our last trip, we treated our 4 sons and their wives to a week in France ("Paris") and with the Colliers as a base (for 2 nights) we were able to do (by car and van) Chartres on the way out and Chantilly and Senlis on the return before they flew home. Not in their ads, we knew to request table d'hote dinners each night (now over 40 euro per head), complete with accompanying wines and after dinner brandy or cordial. There was only one other couple (French) at that time and between us there was plenty of bilingual conversaton. (It is the custom in these situations for the host to try to seat language compatible individuals near each other). As an example of the dinner, the most memorable was one in which the main course was centered around a casserole of sauteed guinea-hen with appropriate fixings and salsify in butter with a lemon flavoring on the side. We add one more website (to those listed by Helga67) and further note that there are many of these chateaux (bed and breakfasts) around France. Along the Loire they might add 100% to your adventure , cost and vacation budgeted avoirdupois

Everything, but for a chateaux open to tourists this is the rule not the exception. We found that most of our fellow guests were not American or British.

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