When arriving at Chateau du Something Charlie had in usual great style arranged we could park in the courtyard, giving the Chateau a bit of style. Unfortunately getting into the courtyard involved mastering a road through a small forest more suited for my aforementioned Jeep. Biggest obstacle though was at the big old metal gate by the main road, to keep that securely locked there was middle part in the ground with a 3-4” metal rod sticking up. Not Pantera friendly at all. But our not small Finnish participant Janne, with typical Finnish Sisu, got out of his car, wriggled the rod and stone a bit, and eventually pulled it all up including the stone it sat in, almost like Arthur and The Sword in the Stone, and threw it to the side. No, he doesn’t have green skin, but he has other talents as we’ll see later. So we could very slowly drive through the wood and into the courtyard. Now the poor French school classes forced to see chateaus had something interesting to look at. Fortunately they didn’t climb all over the cars, actually they did what their teachers told them to! How not 21st century…
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