While in Montbard on Sunday everything is closed.  In a tourist town like Amboise everything is open because it is a big tourist day.  As soon as we left the apartment the city was alive with people in the streets.  Most of them going to or from the “Market”.  The Amboise market is HUGE.  While markets like this in the states are used primarily for small farmers to get their good s to the public.  The Market in Amboise is a way for entreprenuers of all kinds to get all kinds of goods to consumers.  You can buy any kind of food you want,  Also anything from hats to jackets or pants.  Bunny even noted that one booth reminded her of the dollar tree.  There was also a booth selling womans sexy lingerie (insert joke here).  I would estimate that the market went on for 6 blocks and there were 2 aisles with booth on both sides.

This is Piala … It was delicious….

We bot a whole roasted chicken from here for 12 euros …. a little expensive …

We later learned that we could have got a chicken for 5 euros and cooked it ourselves.  But we couldn’t remember if our place had an oven or not ….

We got back to the apartment with our goodies … pigged out for an hour and  then made our way over to the castle.  Our plan was to walk around the castle and then go to the Leonardo Davinci house.  We got down town and learned they were hosting a running race for all ages.  We spent part of the day watching the activity.

The Leonardo Davinci house was just a short walk from downtown.  Along the way we ran into dwellings called troglodytes homes.  These kinds of homes are famous in France.  They are homes built into the side of a cliff.

We got to the Leonardo Davinci home and it was facinating.  It was full of history, stories, and examples of his inventions.

We walked back to our apartment  exhausted from the days activities……