{"id":32824,"date":"2023-06-24T04:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32824"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:19:04","slug":"yevre-le-chatel-france-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32824","title":{"rendered":"Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 22nd June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 220 kms from Lavardin to Melun via Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Ch\u00e2teaudun and Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel<\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Port Du Roy Aire. \u20ac11, N48.53550, E02.55410  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 31 days @ \u20ac100 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It seems to have drizzled lightly all night and it continues into this morning. Pam\u2019s plan for a 6 kms walk this morning dissolved like disprin. So after coffee and some fruit we made for the road early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t have any plans to visit Ch\u00e2teaudun<\/a>, but it looked interesting in Google and it\u2019s on our way. As usual our GPS found an interesting route through the old town to the motorhome parking area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The is a designated motorhome parking place for 6 directly below the Ch\u00e2teau de Ch\u00e2teaudun. It looks like a defensive stronghold more so than your classic French ch\u00e2teau. The original keep dates from 1170 being continually expanded until the 15th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As where early and the Ch\u00e2teau doesn\u2019t open for another hour we saved \u20ac12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The half timber houses in the surrounding street date to the 15th century as well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Once the site of Saint-M\u00e9dard Church, Pam checks out St Avendin\u2019s Tomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Ch\u00e2teau of Ch\u00e2teaudun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Found a nice door as we walked up the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This beautiful renaissance house dates to 1577<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fountain in the Market Square.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our savings from not visiting the museum are soon spent in the market on a roast chicken and baguettes. The drizzle continues as we make our way back to the Hymer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next hour or so spent driving the country D roads to Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel. It\u2019s a slow and relatively relaxed drive through wheat and maize fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages in France you\u2019ll find Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel on page 55. It\u2019s situated in the Central Loire or Loiret area of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We arrive in Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel<\/a> finding plenty of room in a small car-park on the edge of the village. We soon discover it\u2019s perhaps 200 metres from the edge of the village to the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the 12th century Y\u00e8vre Castle we pay our \u20ac6 pp just as the drizzle stops. Nearly everything is in French and the old man in the office tells us they get very few English speaking tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ramparts provide some wonderful views across the valley and the village. Pam loves a steep spiral staircase, well the first three, maybe not the forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the castle we walk the village, there are a couple of artist places but generally it\u2019s just a quiet place, with little lanes that lead to other little laneways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u00c9glise Sant-Gault is rapped in plastic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What we found most interesting was the ruins of \u00c9glise Saint-Lubin and its graveyard. During the 13th century the village had grown to a size where a second church was warranted and work on Saint-Lubin commenced but the 100 year war meant the church was never completed and today it\u2019s a majestic ruin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint-Lubin was once visited by Victor Hugo and he often referred to the ruin in his writings, not that I\u2019m name dropping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village graveyard stands in the grounds surrounding the ruin of a church that never was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Probably the most unusual headstone we\u2019ve seen, nearly worth a bad dream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pam love the Nior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So our visit to Y\u00e8vre-le-Ch\u00e2tel is complete. We could spend the night in the car-park as I doubt anyone would care but we travel on to Melun and a small aire de CC, just off the Seine. It has electricity and the Hymer needs vacuuming and a few things need charging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that Melun is less than 20 minutes on to our next adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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