Sunday, July 14th

Laurent and Bohemond have completed the first phase of the renovation of the terrace.

Waiting to lay tiles, we could not resist the urge to install the garden table and eat outside in the shade of umbrellas

Saturday, July 13th

A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING 

Sunday morning, at 11.00, we are going off to Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire, near Angers, at  274 kms de Châlons en Champagne (295 miles). there were many people on the road, and the trip lasted 5 hours.

Sainte-Gemmes' church was built à the end of the 12th century and transformet many times until 1860

Santa Maria's altar

Stained glass window represented Sainte Gemmes designed by Jean-Adrien Mercier, who lived in this village. Jean-Adrien Mercier was decorated the french ocean liner "France".

This small lane leads us to beautiful gardens where we find the newlyweds and their parents.

Guyonne Ysoie Cyprille Samantha

Cyprille and Samantha

 in the background, the Loire River (length = 1.012 km - 629 mi)

Ysoie and Guyonne

Samantha Cyprille Guyonne Ysoie

French Garden

Three beautiful girls among beautiful flowers !

Cyprille and Samantha

Cyprille Samantha Ysoie

The newly weds Donatien and Loïse, and their parents (at the left, Donatien's parents, at the right, Loïse's parents)

Cyprille Samantha Guyonne Ysoie

The newly weds married are going ... we follow them !

It is in the former Convent of Baumette that Loïse Donatien and receive their guests. It is a beautiful spot, that after hosting a decade one of the most famous French literature of the 16th century monks, François Rabelais , was a half destroyed during the French Revolution before being bought and restored by an ancestor of the bride Loïse.

The Baumette overhangs the Maine River (lengh = 12 kms (7 mi) 

The view from Angers from the belvedere

The cloister

It is 9:00, the doors of the cloister close behind us.

We let the newlyweds to continue the merrymaking . . . the road back is long to Chalons ...

And if you think girls, tired, sleep, think again! It's just for the picture!

We arrived at 1.30 in the morning.

the girls had fallen asleep in the car.

The next day, everyone have slept so long that Bohemond and Antheaume have parade for National Day, without admirers!