Got up and packed our gear to head off again, Tony came up with a cunning plan to re-arrange our Ferry return time to give us more time in the Loire Valley. The guy at the hotel was very helpful and managed to speak to Sea France for us.

With more time on our hands, we decided to go and visit a few more vineyards in the Loire region and Tony managed to squeeze in more photography.

First stop was Saumur and we went to a place called ‘Langlois-Chateau’; they were ever so helpful and spoke very good English. We ended up tasting 10 types of their wines, ranging from sparkling to still wines. We finished on a sparkling red which was ever so unusual but a speciality of theirs. Apparently it started as a joke wine for the staff but they made it to sell. It almost tastes like sweet fizzy ribena. We walked out with 6 bottles in total.

We stopped off a few more vineyards in Chenas there was a lovely vineyard chateau where their hedges were in the shape of a wine bottle and an elephant. We pressed the buzzer as requested but no one answered, so Tony rang the big bell outside the gates, a little French lady came out with a basket of wine for us to taste in the shop to the side of the gates. We picked up another few bottles and had to rearrange the car severely as it was so heavy to even out the weight a bit.

We made one more stop in Vouvray before making a 3 hours journey to Louviers (up north) with a very full car. That was the last of our wine tasting in France for this trip.

Our final night in France was a little chateau manor in the countryside (nowhere as grand as Chateau Bagnols). We had dinner and relaxed for the evening which was very nice.