T Stands for taking a step back in time

Hi everyone, I will continue with our trip to France if that's okay  with you?

We set off for Parthenay to visit the Mediaeval garden on a cloudy morning. It was warm but rain was forecast for later in the day.

The route to the gardens was through the old Mediaeval streets. Our friends had been to Parthenay before but had never been in that area  before so it was a treat for us all.

A bee carved into the eaves.

Great shutters here!

It was quite amusing to see our name up on a wall.

We loved this sweet letter box

 

The Mediaeval area has lots of art studios and they open for the two weekends, sadly we didn't know about it and missed the first one and couldn't stay for the next one.

All the way up the street there were plants and information sheets. The lady who designed them was out walking her dog and told us about the special weekends that we had seen on the poster.

Just some of the steps we had to climb to the gardens

I hope you can enlarge this to read it 

I must say I enjoyed the walk to the gardens more than the gardens themselves, although they were certainly worth the climb.

Down in a little square we found some where to eat - no, not the Cafe des Arts but one from where I took the photo.

It's not an especially interesting building (I'm borrowing hubby's photo here)...

....our friends had pizzas and we had Tartines - something on toast, and very delicious!

As you can see we had water to drink.

I am of course stopping at this point to join Bleubeard and Elizabeth For Stands For Tuesday

I did get a quick photo of the inside, although as you can see we ate on a terrace.

From Parthenay we went on to another interesting place....but more of that next week...

Just in case you think weren't going out much (we haven't much since we came  back) we did get to Lyme Park last Friday

We sat on this shady bench for a picnic

 As you can see, a very sunny day,

Thanks for looking, Chris