The WONDER of this ABANDONED CHATEAU saved from ruin

[@natalieshigeta2510]

your videos are amazing as is your videography. they are very calming, relaxing and quite different from others of their genre. please don't ever stop creating, even if you can only do 1 or 2 per month it is worth it to your viewers such as me who are house bound and are living vicariously through you.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Thank you Natalie, that means a lot.

[@jamieloom22]

Thanks for sharing this unique chateau

[@PaulHutton-jv8ux]

Amazing Architecture! Too Bad it can't be Restored! Just Beautiful!😎🍷

[@luisaleonardi666]

Professional pics, narration and voice over. My congrats to you both for this pleasant and most interesting view. See you next week for another video. Thanks

[@LivingintheLoire]

Thanks Luisa!

[@hhussst]

Masya Allah, sangat cantik dan indah. Terima kasih sudah membuat viedo ini. Senang rasanya mendapatkan pengetahuan baru😊

[@monalingan9523]

Easter at the Château must’ve been so wonderful! The weather was perfect, blue skies, and spring grass, foliage and flowers. Thank you for sharing.

[@LivingintheLoire]

The weather was perfect! I want that weather to come back again 😂 It's been cold, wet and windy ever since.

[@andrewkinard5605]

Thank you for telling the story of this unique space.

[@karenk4793]

Absolutely incredible! Thank you!

[@paulettebarber7219]

Very cool castle!

[@julieprince5538]

Beautiful Thank you 🙏🏽

[@gailhunt7538]

That was soo interesting and beautiful , I’d love to visit there .

[@susansullivan8598]

my family's chateau; my relatives (father's side) were tracked down in Quebec, the 20 brothers and sisters, (farmers) put together the money between all of them and in the 30's that must not have been easy, at the family meeting (at which my father was present around age 8) they looked at each other and said what are we going to do with a castle in France, we'll never go there. My family in Canada (or New France) stems from the Guindon brothers sent by the French Gov to build "New France" they hailed from Loudon, France. The castle came into "Guindon" by a Guindon marrying into the family whose castle it was. I would love to go see it one day, it looks so much like my father's verbal description. He's long gone, but I think he'd get a kick out of the photos of it. No internet back then. Thank you internet.

[@carolebrightman8391]

What a spectacular chateau it must have been. Thank you for the wonderful visit and great information.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Yes, I would have loved to have seen it in its heyday. Thanks for your comment Carole 😊

[@DP-zn4cf]

mais il aurait du etre en cours de restauration ? c est quoi le probleme ?

[@originaltwyla4991]

I live in the Pacific Northwest in the USA and old for us is 150 years or so. There is a romantic element in knowing a building has seen so much since it was built. If only it could tell us its stories.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Imagine the stories!

[@LibbyHelprin-uy7tg]

I miss you and your family! What are you up to? Gardening and running after the kids, most likely. Anyway, I hope everyone’s well and happy.

[@janeblandford852]

Thank you for taking us on this wee tour of the chateau....so interesting and so glad that it is being preserved! See you next week.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Thanks Jane 🙂

[@alexvlachoulis1409]

So Beautiful

[@MrPhiphi57]

Very pretty.

[@simonr6793]

Wow that's one stunning château 😊

[@aryafaaz9345]

Yes 🤩 It's magical 🎉

[@elainepatterson9573]

Lovely to hear your soothing voice again Brook ❤

[@LivingintheLoire]

Thanks Elaine!

[@robnewman6101]

I wish France was a Monarch.

[@FrenchCountrysideLife]

What a special place. I think you'd only find a place like this in France. Back in the UK it would have been turned into luxury flats by now. All the best. 👍🏼

[@GoingsoloinFrance]

Great job on the editing guys. My subscribers tell me to go and look around buildings and towns with my camera.... But I rarely leave the house 😂

[@Palmira2961]

Why trees are still growing out of the walls of the Castle????😢😢😢

[@LivingintheLoire]

One day, trees will be growing out of all the Chateaux in France. Nature will reclaim what is hers in the end.

[@chrisdunderdale]

❤❤❤

[@robnewman6101]

It quite looks a bit sorry for itself.

[@ЮлианаГеоргиева-д2з]

Hello ❤ and for us now is Easter , a very beautiful castle . Very strange why the state of France does not take care of such cultural objects .It must be nice to walk in the garden of a real castle . Greetings from Bulgaria and from me to the beautiful, kind, smart and good English people 😊❤

[@LivingintheLoire]

Happy Easter! There are so many chateaux in France I think it would be impossible for the state to buy and maintain them all. Most fall into disrepair simply because the upkeep is too expensive. I like that with this one they're trying to preserve it how it is now. So making it safe and preventing further damage but also letting nature thrive and do its thing too.

[@ЮлианаГеоргиева-д2з]

@@LivingintheLoire Christ is risen , Happy Easter You too 🐣💖 there are no laws , let us enjoy what we have been given 😊🐰

[@libbyanderson3752]

A beautiful chateau. Would love to have seen it in its heyday. Thank you for the video. Incidentally did you ever make an in-depth video of fermenting veg. Have googled but so many different versions. I wouldn’t be doing a lot as am on my own but I do fancy red cabbage. 😊

[@LivingintheLoire]

Thanks Libby. No we haven't done one (yet!). Red cabbage is a great one to start with as it's really straightforward. Slice it up thinly, put on a bowl, sprinkle on a couple of teaspoons of salt and massage in. Leave for up to an hour so it starts to 'sweat' (the water comes out creating its own brine). Pack tightly into a jar, using the end of a rolling pin can help really push it down. If you need to top up with more brine you can but I normally find for cabbage it creates enough of its own juices. Put a weight on top to make sure the cabbage is submerged and leave on the side for a couple of weeks.

[@libbyanderson3752]

@@LivingintheLoire well that’s simple enough no special jars as was suggested and even one a temperature gauge! Thank you for taking up your precious time to let me know. I can buy at a local farmers market and it will be organic. Not worth growing as am on my own now. You are certainly in the right place with your little ones. It seems to me like a big black cloud is overhanging the world. Best to keep snug and secure where you are . Big hugs libby

[@KathysFlog]

Ma fille is one of many co-owners.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Oh wow. Has she been to any of the events?

[@arnicepernice8656]

Lovely family day out. And those white flowers looked like honesty. Lovely!

[@TheFiown]

I really don't understand where all the money went when you see that it hasn't been restored and trees are growing out of it everywhere. Strange.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Preserving the ruin of the main chateau to make it safe for visitors and prevent further decay. Clearing and repairing all the outbuildings and grounds. Building the huge event space, toilet blocks, car park. All .the signs for visitors. I don't know the full break down as I'm not a co-chatelain but I imagine there's still money in the kitty as well.

[@wychan2004]

This is still in ruins

[@flojolivet512]

It probably cannot be rebuilt but the point is to maintain it, making it safe and stopping the process to avoid complete destruction.

[@LivingintheLoire]

Exactly. Their aim is to prevent further damage, make it safe for the public to enjoy while celebrating all the nature and wildlife that has grown up in and around the ruins.

[@wychan2004]

@@flojolivet512 the end is near... soon mother nature will reclaim it

[@LaughingInTiny]

Yes, I had thought the aim was to restore it as well. There are many others though in need of saving that are not as far gone.

[@flojolivet512]

@@LaughingInTiny not all the monuments can be restored. Let me give you an example. There are several Roman amphitheatres like in Saintes and in Lillebonne, which are in ruin. They have been selected for government help to save them. Obviously, we are not going to rebuild Roman amphitheaters, but the point is to stop the deterioration so that they do not disappear forever. As for the rest. Remember that there are approximately 50,000 chateaus in France hundreds of thousands of churches, abbeys, Roman and mediaeval bridges, windmills water mills and there are lots of parts of heritage, such as historical boats planes, etc. which are also selected for renovation, so imagine the volume of what needs to be done. It is endless