Chambord

The first impression of Chambord was that it was absolutely massive. The lady that took tickets was also the rudest of our encounters during the day. We went into the castle and it is literally so huge that most of the space is just walls and floors. There are also significant parts that are decorated as they would have been back in the day. There are Fs and salamanders on the walls and in lots of the decoration for Francois I who lived there. He sure liked to leave his mark. One of the neatest parts of the castle was a staircase designed by Leonardo Da Vinci and is one staircase with two passage ways. A person can take one set of stairs and see the other person through the posts, but never actually meet them. The King used it to go up and down the stairs without meeting his servants. Clever dude. The top terrace of the castle was pretty amazing also because we could see all the towers and turrets. A very cool place and an easy way to spend 2 hours of a day. There are lots of rooms and we did quite a bit of walking all over the massive castle.