For all of you coming to cook at Chateau des Sablons this November in the Loire Valley, let me just begin to dream you through the week:
Saturday evening:Â arrival (followed by dinner, wine and chocolate)
Sunday:
9:00 am breakfast (with croissants from Patisserie Metry)
10:00 am departure for Montsoreau flea market/antiques
lunch in Fontevreau; visit to Abby (VERY good in Brasserie: Croque Madame with salad; 6.50 Euros.)
3:30 pm wine tasting with Jerome Godefroy
4:30 pm class with Faye
7:00 dinner
Monday:
8:15 am breakfast
9:00 am departure for Chinon
9:30 tour of Chateau of Chinon with wander through town
lunch at Brasserie del Paix
4:30 pm cheese tasting with Jean-Pierre
5:30 pm class with Faye
7:30 pm dinner
Tuesday:
8:15 am breakfast
9:00 am Bourgueil for fresh fruit and veg market (crepes/ La Trattoria)
Villandry/Langeais
4:30 pm class with Faye
7:00 pm dinner
Wednesday:
8:45 am breakfast
9:30 am depart for Bourgueil
10:00 am chocolate demonstration with M. Metry
7:30 pm dinner at former residence of Louis the 14th (complete with burning torches)
Thursday:
8:15 am breakfast
9:00 am departure for Samur
drive along D947 with the house/caves (forgive my terminology) on the right
12:00 pm workers’ lunch (long tables, full lunch, fabulous prices)
2:00 pm tasting/tour of Veuvre Amiot (gorgeous sparkling white; hard not to fall in love with)
5:00 pm class with Faye
7:30 pm dinner
Friday:
8:15 am breakfast
9:00 departure for Tour (kitchen stores/ boutiques/historical center
12:00 lunch in Tour
2:00 depart for wine tasting
3:00 wine tasting with M. Druet Pierre Jacques Druet
7:30 dinner
Saturday:
8:15 breakfast
departure