Rainy Amboise France

While we have had some wonderful summer like weather in the UK, Europe on the other hand has experienced some serious rainfall. Typically sods law meant we booked our trip right in the middle of this and had rain on every day bar one. It did not prevent us from getting in plenty of walking, but our planned canoeing on the Dordogne and Vezere rivers was definitely out of the question.

Photography wise it was simply a case of making the best of it. In the small town Amboise on the way back to the UK we got another soaking when a thunderstorm hit one evening. We did our best to shelter from the downpour, but when I spotted this battered old Citroen 2CV driving up the street I could not resist trying to grab a few shots. Standing in the middle of the road I only managed to rattle off four shots before a car came up behind me and I had to get out of the way. Perhaps it was just as well because the rain got into the camera and some of the buttons on the back stopped working. Fortunately it recovered after drying out. It would have been great to have grabbed a few more shots as it got closer but by the time the traffic had passed it had gone.

Citroen 2CV's classically French

Later as the storm cleared I grabbed a few night shots of the Chateau and the swollen Loire River.

The Chateau Amboise, across a swollen Loire river, Indre et Loire Region of France


Pont Leclerc with the Church of St Florentin Behind, Viewed Across the Loire River, Amboise Indre et Loire France


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