View of Vitre from its outskirts

Poce-les-Bois, near Vitre

Lunch at

La Cantine de Francois

 

and

 

Boundary marker of Isabelle's and Noel's property that has to be negotiated before commencing our almost daily walk

(below)

 

A day spent in Angers, a city in the Maine-et-Loire department, and formerly the capital of the province of Anjou. The old medieval centre is still dominated by the massive chateau of the Plantagenêts, home of the Apocalypse Tapestry, the biggest medieval tapestry ensemble in the world. Angers is about 77-miles from St-Didier.

Monument to King Rene

(left) the Maine river viewed from the chateau

The Apocalypse Tapestry is a large medieval set of tapestries commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382. It depicts the story of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation by Saint John the Divine in colourful images, spread over six tapestries that originally totalled 90 scenes, and were about six metres high, and 140 metres long in total.