SLATE

Les toits d'ardoise de Chinon

Slate roofs in Chinon overlooking the Vienne river in the center of France.

Vocabulary

un toit :  a roof

ardoise:  slate

Expression
Avoir une ardoise:  to have an account or debt for drinks in a bar or café

©2013 P.B. Lecron

GIVE ME SHELTER: FRENCH CAVE HOME

Front door to a troglodyte home in the heights of the Loire Valley city of Chinon. Such subterranean limestone dwellings are fitted out either in existing caverns or in excavations, like the one featured in a very interesting video clip you can view by clicking here. The most important concentration of troglodyte dwellings in Europe are found in the Loire Valley.  Très écolo and very much lived in.

Vocabulary
un troglodyte:  a cave dweller; a wren
une maison troglodyte:  a cave dwelling
écolo:  slang for ecological
Val de Loire:  Loire Valley

©2012 P.B. Lecron