Our first bike ride in this location, cycled along the voie verte, a disused rail rack converted to a beautifully cycle path. Chinon has nice fortress and great wines.
1 October 2023
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Today is the first day in the LA the plan today is to go from theet to Shino along a disused rail track and then on to the L this is the route from theet to the town of the town of Rish is named after the Cardinal Rish who in tigated this uh Town for himself he built a nice castle and this was built from 1631 to 1642 this is how the castle look like apparently it inspired Foria and he also built a castle for his girlfriend um that was about 4 kilometers away from the town for obvious
Reasons we’re now cycling in the town of Rish and we’re going to make a very important stop the town of was designed by Jac Lum who also designed s the town is one of the first towns which uses a grit outline and this can be seen on this Model the Cardinal wanted to have his town populated quickly so people who wanted to buy a plot of land were given tax incentives however there was no freedom in the design of the house and you had to use a builder Who was appointed by the Cardinal as mentioned the road we on is on a Axis of Symmetry and it can be seen that the brown doors are opposing each other we’re now approaching the southern Square the town outlined in green had two axes of symmetry I got a north south and an East West One Look now approaching the cafe which uh was going to be our watering hole for the coming Week the covered Marketplace is as it was built We now approaching the start of uh the old rail track which is converted into a beautiful cycle paath all the way to Shon The old stations and tracks can still be Seen The old track is incorporated here within the road service at the end of the track you continue on a bit of dirt and then you can continue on public roads Here we are approaching Shon and it well-known Fortress the river we are crossing here is not the L but Vienna What’s in the center of the fort is the Royal lodgings which can be seen in red on the little sketch on the far right is the to the H or the Clock Tower The For [Laughter] Sho is not only famous for its Fortress it’s also got some very nice wine uh here’s a map of the wines it can be seen that Shon is in the just east of the Confluence of the Vienna River and the The Vineyards of Theo are on either
Side of the river Vienna uh the main gravee is cab FR and the main variety is red wine uh 10% white wine and O however not all red wines are the same it depends very much uh amongst others on the soil type of the vineyard this map shows the four main types of
Soil the variation of the soil can EAS be explained by this geological profile and the left is South there right is north and the river ven can be seen in the middle and depending on where the location of the vineyard is the sub is Different and here we start cycling along Theana this is the chatau de mon which is now Museum of Contemporary Art a modern harvesting Machine Ideal wine cellers uh on a constant Temperature And last look at the river Jenna