Chartres – Le Grand Monarque

September 17, 2005

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Le Grand Monarque has been the best hotel in
Chartres for several centuries.  Read the rest of this entry »

September 10, 11 and 12, 2005, we stayed at the Château d’Audrieu, in the country between Bayeux and Caen.  It is an old building converted to a Relais et Châteaux hotel.  Read the rest of this entry »

On September 8 & 9, 2005, we stayed at the Château de Brécourt, in the countryside near Vernon.  Vernon is small city on the Seine between Rouen and Mantes-la-Jolie which was heavily bombed in 1944 to prevent the Germans from using the bridge to move reinforcements to Normandy.  Read the rest of this entry »