T Stands for - The little things..and a Surprise Garden

Hi everyone, after our delightful lunch last week we headed back Vendeuvre, a small commune where our gîte was situated.

We went to visit Chateau Vendeuvre which houses the largest (we were told)collection of miniature furniture.

It was well set out and we spent some time looking at the exhibits which were all in large glass cases on the ground floor.

I do hope that this is suitable for my ticket to T Stands for Tuesday this week. It was small but so beautifully detailed.

I am of course joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth at The Altered Book Lover. 

Upstairs was slightly different - some exhibits were on tables, some behind glass or under glass domes, they were larger than downstairs but attention to detail was fantastic

This made us giggle a bit

We had been told that there was a Surprise Garden so of course we had to go and look.

Beautiful...and then we came to the surprise part!

Sensors triggered off water features, some which came close to soaking us if we didn't move fast enough - this one turned in to a mist tree. 

This squirted water onto the path by the archway

Our friend trying to dodge the jets of water

This was a viewpoint circle

I was just deciding which direction to make a run for it!

We got used to hearing shrieks as we went round knowing that someone else had had a soaking!It really was fun!

We went on to visit the kitchen

There was also a shell house

I can't imagine how many shells they had to collect to make these walls

They also had mazes, topiary and a lake

I hope you realise that I could go on for ever with the delights of this chateau but I'll leave you with a shot of the chateau from the car park across the road

Thanks for being patient if you have reached the end of this post, Chris