A DAY IN A FRENCH CASTLE + GARDENS EXHIBITION AT LE CHATEAU DE BOUGES

[Music] [Music] last week on a warm summer weekend I took the train and joined a friend of mine who lives in puer with her family and we both took the road to visit L Chateau de bouge in the center West of France to see the exhibition about Gardens throughout the centuries which takes place right now till November at De and is organized by mon you have seen the medieval manuscript I've created for it last spring in many videos [Music] we started our visit first by the castle which was built in the mid 18th century by CL Leblon de maraval a Fier General a tax collector for the king Louis 15 and the park is huge it is 88,200 Acres large and the latest owner of this Castle was Rene Vig the director of a big Parisian shop which is open right now and started at the beginning of the 20th century B which you can still see in Paris in the center of Paris and now the castle is open to the public and belongs to mon [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] we especially enjoyed the library and I was surprised to see they had the entire collection of the cabin this collection of fairy tales first published in 1786 I own a few volumes of this collection but definitely not the entire collection [Music] and we continued the visit in the cellers to see the exhibition about the history of gardens throughout centuries in art nature and literature and here you can see the medieval castle I created inspired by L Rand lose [Music] [Music] master oh [Music] [Music] [Music] the exhibition at Le chatau the BGE will run till November 2024 so you have quite a bit of time to go there in case you stop to France this summer this end of summer or during the full season it's still going to be there and I think visiting the park and this beautiful Castle in Autumn must be really magical uh it was really nice when we went but the it was really really warm and there was a lot of insects near the The Little Pond and we didn't dare going too much further because there were a lot of insects at this season but it's going of course to change in the upcoming weeks I definitely uh recommend you for you to go H it's not overcrowded with people by the way it's just one of these places which I really like because you can enjoy all this beautiful horses buggies and all the collection they have the beautiful garden the castle the exhibition it's worth seeing we finished the visit by the G and the Stables [Music] though the park being 88,200 Acres large we didn't explore the entire park as you can imagine and also the temperature was really really high that day so we only visited few Gardens [Music] and we left this beautiful place the head full of precious memories with the car filled with Medieval music as my friend is passionate about the medieval art and the medieval history [Music] and we reach her home where she lives with her husband and children not far fromer and as the theme of the day was the garden he were glimpses of her Charming Garden [Music] I had to come back with something and my friend offered me this beautiful copy of an engraving of the castle which I'm going to frame as a memory of this trip and a little box of biscuits which are by La Maris de sablé who was not exactly in Puti she's in this area and you can find usually the these products they have teas and biscuits all inspired by this invented for La Maris de sa in the 17th century so yes the box was just irresistible I had to go back there and it was um available at the shop of the museum and it was just too pretty not to take and I didn't even open it just going to open it to see I'm not going to eat them yet I want to keep them I think there is a bag inside yes there is just bags of biscuits but there biscuits from the 17th century there so they must be absolutely delicious the box it just just adorable so that's the little things I came back with I'm back in my kingdom now I have traveled a long time on Sunday because I traveled during the entire day I didn't want to go by Paris to go back home which usually you have to go if you're not familiar with French trains uh the fast trains we have which are the fastest train we have which goes about as about 300 km fast it's the the speed they have which make you say a lot of time but they all go from and to Paris most of them so it's very difficult for me I'm whether in the East Central France to go to the West directly without stopping at Paris and I had to make my own trip when I was um uh booking my my train tickets online not to go by by Paris because the normal website will make you go by Paris and I wanted to avoid that at all cost also because they were the Olympics this past uh weeks and days so I wanted to avoid that and all the crowd and the you have to change a rail station in Paris it's really really annoying so I wanted to have something more comfortable when on Friday I had a very easy trip very fast with the fast train but on Sunday I had to take the slower train which I discovered was actually very comfortable and really nice it's less expensive it takes longer twice longer actually to travel with this one it's called an City but you stop at a lot of uh station you see see the Landscapes much better you don't exactly go on the same Railways than the fast trains and it gave me a lot of ideas of towns I don't know I've never been to like bourge which is actually not far from me from where I live there and could be a really nice weekend Escapade there is an amazing cathedral in B that I would love to see um it was actually a very good surprise to do this very long trip on Sunday but gave me a lot of ideas and I discovered that these trains were very comfortable you have more space stand in the tjv the fast trains which can be if you are a bit claustrophobic can be a little uncomfortable sometimes you don't have a lot of space um the ceiling is really low um here it's different it's like a normal train with a big windows and air conditioning everything but just slower so I come back home eventually now I'm back to work I'm going to continue and complete now at least I don't have any other escapet just for at least till I finish the workshop and I will have another one a little later but for now I'm all focused on completing the workshop you can subscribe if you appreciated what you saw and you can give a thumbs up also it's always very helpful for my videos thank you for your kind comments on all my videos for your support your comfort your kind words they are very much appreciated and I hope you have a very beautiful week and I see you soon [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music]