Bev & Rick Go to France for Vacation 2014

Introduction

• The Viking bus tour went through the Loire valley, and stopped at the chateaus of Chambord and Chenonceau, and some interesting small towns.
• The Viking river boat tour concentrated on the wines of the Bordeaux region, including Margaux, Sauternes, Cognacs, and St. Emilions.  Yum, yum. 
  

How to view the pages and pictures

• At the top and bottom of each page are the usual web site navigation tools.
• Each picture has a thumbnail picture and a caption on the main page.  The thumbnail is a hotspot.  Click the thumbnail and you will get a large picture, as large as will fit on your screen, or maybe larger.  
• If the cursor is a magnifying glass with a + sign in the middle of it, then clicking again in the picture will enlarge it further, up to the maximum resolution available, so you can see details.
  
• (Firefox and Chrome do this correctly; Internet Explorer and SeaMonkey, sorry to say, tend to give you a large picture first, often larger than the screen, so you may have to scroll around in it, or de-magnify it to see it all.  And I'm not sure about Safari.  As ever, Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus will make the picture larger or smaller in your browser window.)  
• Use the BACK BUTTON in your browser, or the BACKSPACE KEY on your keyboard, to get back to the page full of thumbnails and explanations. 
  
• (The pictures have all been reduced in size so that you can retrieve them quickly over the internet.  If you really, really want to see a the original high resolution version of a photo, please send me an email.)