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Leaving your Parisian hotel around 6.am: after about 2-hours drive, in Patrice's comfortable air-conditioned Chrysler Voyager van, you will reach the International Golf Course, the Golf "des Bordes", formaly the property of Baron BICH.
In this contry side area, you will be able to play its 18 holes, in a relaxed
and calm environment, thinking about the succulent and tasty lunch
you're going to enjoy in one the best places of the Sologne area. | | | In this former "relais de poste", near the Loire river châteaux, Mrs Christine ROBIN will welcome you, and the Head Chef, Bernard ROBIN will prepare for you , a "salade de pigeon et homard à la vinaigrette de légumes confits", and the "queue de b?uf en hachis parmentier aux truffes", both chefs-d'?uvre of invention.
In season, from September, le "lièvre à la royale" is really wonderful. | -Menu- | | In the afternoon ,after a 15-minute-drive, you will be able to visit the château de CHEVERNY, the model for the famous château de Moulinsart, in Tintin's strip cartoons.
Built from 1625, CHEVERNY presents two perfectly sysmmetrical white stone façades. Inhabited by the same family since its construction, it has kept its rich interior decoration unchanged. You will also see genuine fox hunting dogs, and the famous trophy room. It has been open to visitors since 1922. There, you will be enchanted by the richness and abundance of its furnishings and the authentic and refined charm of its decoration. It is the most magnificently furnished château in the Loire Valley. | | Among the many masterpieces to be seen are : paintings by old masters, tapestries from Ateliers de Paris, 17° century Flemish tapestries,
a remarkable Louis XV grandfather clock, a rare Louis XIV commode,
the lying-in-state bed in King's bedroom and a thousand other beauties.
You will be seduced by the majesty of the park and its canal. If you please, you will explore the superb park of Cheverny by boat or electric car,
thus being able to observe the fauna anf flora while gliding though
the water in complete silence, without disturbing the environment,
-from April to November-. | | On the way back, if possible, a visit at the château de CHAMBORD will astonish you. There, everything is huge: a 11000 acre park-and forest-land, a building with 440 rooms constructed from 1519, imagined by Léonard de Vinci, for the King François the First.
A wonderful afternoon indeed !
This château is surrounded by a 31 km-wall, making it the largest enclosed forest park in Europe, and an exceptional hunting reserve
-a former President of the République used to hunt there-. | | | When going back, you may even catch a glimpse
of a few boars or deers trying to cross over the road. Before reaching Paris, you will have time to visualize the different steps of this unforgettable day again, and might want to share that with yours friends. | |
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