We're glad to have had a bit of warm sunshine and to see the leaves appearing on the trees at last. However, during the winter the bare branches have a distinct advantage when out and about seeing what there is to see.
We live in a part of France where there are literally hundreds of small or medium sized châteaux and most of them are hidden by trees for half of the year. In winter they are easier to spot. When on route to familiar places we will see a pointy tower peeping out from behind the trees and we go and have a closer look. Most of them are someone's home, a grand private house. Some are dilapidated, ancient ruins, others clearly in the process of being renovated (you can tell by the number of builder's vans outside).
We stumbled across this one very recently. It's actually not all that well hidden, is drop dead gorgeous and clearly someone's home. We spotted the tower in the trees just a very short distance from a road we use often and we never knew it was there. For eighteen years we have driven past the end of its road and had no idea such a place existed.
It reminds me of travelling by bus, and peering over walls and hedges at the houses hidden behind them.
ReplyDeleteVery true.
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