Ambroise was the first place
we visited on our journey through the Loire Valley.
Leonardo
DaVinci died here
in 1519 shortly before devising his famous code. You
can visit his house 'in' season (read:
not winter).
Which is why there are no photos of it here.
The first thing I noticed about
Ambroise as compared to Paris, is that Ambroise has
REAL river banks. The
second thing was the really cool arch, which I found
out is a common feature in French villages. An easy
way to tell a touristy village from a non-touristy
one is that in the touristy village the town arch
doesn't look like crêpe.
The castle looms over and castes it's shadow across
the town. But the town has other charms as well.
For
instance I found that one of the most interesting things
about Ambroise is that everyone in town lives in some
kind of stone structure. Usually they moved the stones
to the building site. But sometimes the stones were too
big, so they improvised...
In America, people
are friendly and cats are stuck up. Anyone who says
that the inhabitants
of France are not friendly has clearly not been to
Ambroise. We made a French friend almost immediately...
Up on the hill we found some really inexpensive apartments...
After our drinking binge on the hill
we decided it was time for lunch. On the way down
we stopped to strike a pose...
We did a little Jack and Jill down
the hill and at the bottom we rolled into this restaurant
where we ate
a good lunch for only 7€ (± beer) ...
That's Gomes up above. He's a photographer (like
me).
To the right you can see Okush from Snoland. And with
your mouse you can get a pretty smile from Amelia...
Here we have the lovely Inês and the (evil) Hooliator...
France has been a world leader
in technology since before Roman times. As early as
the middle ages they
had solar powered parking meters. They had bread baking
ovens before they even had buildings...
Other things you can see
on Hooliator.net include London
England and the battle
between commercialism
and the forces of good.
Use the Site Map on the slidey thing to see more.
(Dreamweaver MX helped)
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