Castles

Last weekend Samantha's host family invited me to go to the Loire Valley with them. The Loire is known for its wine, food, and castles. There are literally hundreds of castles in this area. This was my first time inside a castle and the first one I walked through is the largest castle in France.

This is Château de Chambord, the biggest of them all in France. My pictures of the actual castle didn't turn out that great that I might just post the postcards I bought on here. 

The King's pointing stick and crown.  

 One of the cool doors. The whole castle was really cold, I think the rocks make very poor insulators. I tried not to walk around with an engineering eye.. 

 The queen's bed.. separate from the king's bed.

 A stove like thing, it was next to the queen's bedroom, which I guess was used to keep her food warm when they brought it in. 

 On the roof! This is a closer look at the architecture. 

 A heating stove, I am not sure how effective it was during the winter, but there are fireplaces everywhere. There is at least one fireplace in each room, two in each hall way, and some random ones also. 

The king's bedroom. All the bedrooms had cloth on the walls which were used as insulators.. 

Many people lived in this castle, I couldn't keep track of the history because it took a few years to build.. like hundreds... 

I want to apologize for my poor memory of facts. It also doesn't helped that much that everything I read/hear is in French, so I retain very little of it... and I'm not that interested in the history of the wealthy.. I'm sorry :'(