{"id":448,"date":"2015-10-21T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=448"},"modified":"2015-10-21T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:28:07","slug":"trip-to-france-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Trip to France, Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 9<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday September 15<br \/>\nWe left Chartres after breakfast, at which I enjoyed \u201cdo-it-yourself\u201d cr\u00e8pes: strawberry, apricot and chocolate. In my defense, they were smaller than typical cr\u00e8pes!<\/p>\n<p>Our next stop was a town called Amboise.<!--more--> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8324-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"DSE_8324\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8324-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8324.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We walked up a long hill to the residence of Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in Amboise during the final years of his life.\u00a0Many of his brilliant inventions were on display. Later at a sidewalk caf\u00e9, we each enjoyed foods we haven\u2019t eaten in years: quiche Lorraine for me, and Peach Melba for Nick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-450 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8451-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"DSE_8451\" width=\"376\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8451-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSE_8451.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/>The Loire Valley is dotted with thousands of chateaux built centuries ago. In the afternoon we went to Chenonceau, a chateau big enough to straddle the Cher River. It had quite a history, having been a gift from King Henry II to his mistress, and then reclaimed by Henry\u2019s wife after his demise during a jousting tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, we went to Chinon. There we enjoyed a four-course dinner at an award-winning restaurant called Au Chapeau Rouge. Our meal was a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, a fish salad, roast pork with a delicious sauce, chocolate mousse, and saffron ice cream. Calling the dessert \u201cchocolate mousse\u201d doesn\u2019t do it justice. It consisted of creamy chocolate mousse inside a dark chocolate boat floating in a liquid white chocolate \u201csea.\u201d Everyone applauded the chef! That night we both slept for eight hours and were the last ones to go to breakfast the next morning.<br \/>\n8,815 steps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 9 Tuesday September 15 We left Chartres after breakfast, at which I enjoyed \u201cdo-it-yourself\u201d cr\u00e8pes: strawberry, apricot and chocolate. In my defense, they were smaller than typical cr\u00e8pes! Our next stop was a town called Amboise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}