We are now in Saumur which is in the Loire Valley a place we visited last year but did not have enough time to explore fully.

The first pictures are of the chateau taken from our campsite and the night time pictures were taken at 11.30pm on Bastille day/night.

The other two pictures are of mushrooms at the mushroom museum where we learnt there are over 250,000 varieties of mushrooms throughout the world. Saumur is the main producer in France of the button mushroom.

The remaining pictures are of a Troglodyte village which dates back to the 17th century but there were people still living in it up to the turn of the 20th century. The houses are carved out of soft sand stone in the rock face and this particular village was a farm which had outbuildings of grain store, animal shelters and the all important wine cellars where they produced there own wines.