@ Mike ~ very nice to see those places again, we were in that region in my film days and if memory serves me right you did miss an interesting interior in Chambord - it has two spiral staircases close together and they "turn" in opposite directions i.e. clockwise & counterclockwise. Oh and what struck us with the French Chateau was how bare they are compared the likes NT and English Heritage.
Thanks Laurence 
I found some of them to be a little bare but a couple of them were very well presented inside with plenty to see. The woman who worked at the campsite we were staying at told us that Chambord wasn't worth looking round as it was quite empty inside...I kind of wished we'd ignored her advice but alas no!



















