Busy in Springtime

I said the other day (see the previous post) that we have been busy, so much so that our focus fell away from the blog and onto remembering how to do stuff that used to be normal. We had two years (more or less) away from life as we knew it, and returning to normal procedures requires memory of how things used to be done, and thought into how to adapt that to the new world we find ourselves in.

One of the most obvious changes has been in the amount of traffic on the roads. We were in Tours at 6.00pm on Wednesday, which would normally mean a traffic snarl from the Autoroute to the station and beyond. This week the traffic was more like what we'd normally see on a Saturday afternoon. The traffic along the Loire levee bank was about half of what I would have expected four years ago, even though the options have been halved by the road through Montlouis being closed and traffic diverted.

The photo today is the tulip and daffodil combination at the chateau of Amboise, with the soon to be unveiled recently restored chapel of St Hubert in the background. What you can't see is how windy it was, or the menacing storm clouds on the horizon. It was taken on Wednesday morning