Today we went to Chenonceau, a castle about half an hour out of Tours. It is a castle that was built in the 16th century and is still maintained today as an impressive and beautiful national landmark. When we got there, we had lunch next to the river which flows next to the castle and after eating we headed onto the castle grounds to explore. A friend and I decided to go to the labyrinth on the castle grounds first since that seemed interesting, however, the labyrinth wasn’t much of a labyrinth at all. It was more like a tiny maze. After that, we went and checked out the castle, which was pretty good. It was a lot more interesting than the other castle, Villandry, that we visited on Friday, because it was bigger and had more interesting stuff other than just plain rooms. After we were done exploring the castle, we took a brief trip through the gardens before heading off to find the medieval village thing that was on our maps. On our way there, though, we discovered a playground that was sort of hidden away. Under the guise of “exploring” we went inside and swung on the swings for a while, despite the playground rules stating that it was only for 3-12 year olds. We figured that if there were a few kids who were clearly below 3 years old there, then surely they wouldn’t mind having a few teenagers there too. 
