What a place to spend my birthday! It is so relaxing here. We only planned to spend 3 days here but have stayed 6.
We have walked miles, to nearby villages, through the Fontainebleau Forest, in the chateau parks and gardens, and around the village, especially looking for a particular patisserie.
This aerial view shows the chateau and parks and gardens, 130 acres. The blue dot shows the hotel where we are staying, just opposite one of the chateau gardens. The Fontainebleau Forest is much bigger (25000 hectares) and surrounds the township.
Lots of people use the parks, gardens as well as the forest, and often simply to enjoy a walk in the outdoors ( as opposed to exercise or fitness).
We enjoyed a picnic in the park for my birthday...... After a walk around and around the village, visiting the local market, and searching for the patisserie.
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| Just a light lunch cos we planned to go out for dinner too. |
Choices, choices, choices
Loved it. Just gotta love single serve wine in plastic, screw top bottles too. Perfect picnic accompaniment.
Whilst wandering around we've also searched for some geocaches. Some successful, others, not so.
And one that we didn't retrieve..... Hidden on this statue. Would need to scramble around the ledge, over the water.... With lots of passing traffic and walkers. I think not.
But one also took us to this beautiful old church in another part of a nearby village. What a stunner.
Thursday we head back to Paris, and our last day in Europe. It has been absolutely fabulous!
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