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You can visit the gardens of Monet from April 1 until November 1, which means that you can visit it in springtime, summer and autumn. Years ago, I first visited the gardens of Monet during spring and I had been eager to go back ever since. COVID kept interrupting my plans, but the past summer we were finally able to fit it into our travel schedule again. In this blogpost I will share my summer visit pics as well as some throwback pics, so you can make an informed decision on when to visit the gardens!

On our recent road trip where we were exploring the west of France I discovered that this area is full of amazing castles. We pasted the beautiful Loire Valley twice on this road trip, so we made sure we timed our lunchbreak with a chateau visit. I had read about the famous gardens of Chateau de Villandry before and when I noticed that we would be in the neighborhood I of course had to plan a little visit. The landscaping of the gardens of Villandry is done exquisitely and if the gardens of Villandry do not impress you, I don’t know which gardens will.

To me it was never about van life or traveling in a van, but I wanted a van as an opportunity to travel with a baby. This summer we traveled in the van for three weeks and we were able to visit Paris, Bordeaux, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Porto, the Douro Valley, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, La Rochelle and Ile-de-Re. So in that sense I succeeded in my goal. But what was traveling in such a small space like with a baby that just started to crawl? One thing that made traveling easier was that Hielke installed an outdoor shower for our van. In this blog you will find out about both!