Chateau Vioully, Day 5, 04-28-2012

We have been afoot on the information highway for 3 days.  The next three blog entries will be make ups.

Our Paris adventure ended today.  Our transportation picked us up at the hotel this morning and took us to Versailles.  There we picked up a rental from Hertz.  We requested a large vehicle, big enough for 6 Americans and their luggage.  What we got was big enough for 6 and no luggage or 4 with luggage.  There being no other vans available, we took it.  It was rainy and foggy and we headed out.  Our first stop was at Giverny.  A pretty little village, the home of Monet.  The gardens were beautiful and the home very nice and the paintings (prints) very expensive.  We toured the place, had a great lunch and headed for Normandy.  We arrived in the village of Vioully around 7:00pm at the Chateau Vioully.  It is a castle, complete with a moat, construction starting around year 1300.  Very old, very historical .  The place was used as the headquarters for General Omar Bradley and the USA War Correspondents from June 10 to August 1945.  Ernie Pyle, Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney and Mike Kappa, to name a few.