Angers sits in the North West of France, near the region of Brittany. I took the TGV from Paris to Angers with Claire to visit her mother, Caro, who is English but has lived in France for 35 years.
Caro collected us from the train station and took us to her house, where I stayed for the duration of my time there. Since on this trip I wasn’t a tourist as such, and was there to visit Claire’s family, I spent most of my time in and around the house. I had a lot of time for the pets wandering about as well, Claire’s favourite cat Saffy and her rabbit Moka were both very friendly animals and I had perhaps too much fun chasing them about in the garden.
Other members of the family were visiting, and we all had dinner a few times in Caro’s house. The whole family are fantastic cooks, and when they’re all contributing to dinner the food is guaranteed to be top class. I loved it.
One of the overriding reasons to visit Angers is its stunning tapestry series on display at the Château d’Angers. It is the longest tapestry in the world, 100m survives of the original 140m. The works were woven in the 14th century and depict stories from the Book of Revelation.
Caro took us there and we spent hours looking at the story being told by these huge works of art. Apparently it takes almost a full year to hand weave only 1m², so judging by the long wall of tapestry I saw in front of me it had taken hundreds of people many years to complete.
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