Loire Valley weekend

We left Paris last Thursday for a long weekend in central France.  After an easy train trip we found ourselves in the town of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire.  We stayed in a bed and breakfast situated on the banks of the Loire River.  Not only did we have a bathroom in a former wine cellar that was bigger than our bedroom here in Paris, but there was a heated pool in the garden.

The building housing the bed and breakfast was a Benedictine abbey prior to the French Revolution

View from the garden at sunset

While we did get out into the surrounding towns quite a bit, we also enjoyed exploring Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire and the summer entertainment put on by the town. We ran across a bicycle race one night after dinner and there was live music every day.

On our last day, we took a long walk along the Loire River and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Eventually we ended up back in the center of town and inspected all of the offerings of the local market. We bought some bread to use for dinner when we got home with another of our purchases, a delicious local goat cheese called Crottin de Chavignol.