Visiting the Medieval Theme Park at Puy du Fou (Vendee, France) with Juilliard Graduate Florence Paget and Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
My daughter Florence and I visited a French theme park with no rides called the “Parcours de Puy du Fou” in the Vendée region south of Nantes.
The Parcours de Puy du Fou was a recreated medieval town built using materials which would have been employed at the time. There was no sewage in the streets, so it was not completely authentic, but the concept was a good one.
Florence touched the horns of an ox and pet a horse. She liked the wooden shoe carver and ran her hand over the whittled wood surface without running into any splinters. A blacksmith made horseshoes in a blistering hot shop.
From the village street, we walked to the medieval fort. There was a defensive fence around the moat. Florence touched everything she could and ran excitedly around the streets. Florence liked history, and I believed childhood should be one big field trip.
After lunch, we went to the Old Castle and saw a show with trained eagles, vultures, hawks, and falcons. They had been trained as hunting birds as they would have been in the Middle Ages.
I like the birds the best of everything here,” Florence said as she tried to catch a hawk that flew overhead.
When the show was over, a falcon flew up to us in the stands and perched. I felt like a queen standing next to it.
By Ruth Paget, Author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
Click here for: Ruth Paget's Amazon Books
My daughter Florence and I visited a French theme park with no rides called the “Parcours de Puy du Fou” in the Vendée region south of Nantes.
The Parcours de Puy du Fou was a recreated medieval town built using materials which would have been employed at the time. There was no sewage in the streets, so it was not completely authentic, but the concept was a good one.
Florence touched the horns of an ox and pet a horse. She liked the wooden shoe carver and ran her hand over the whittled wood surface without running into any splinters. A blacksmith made horseshoes in a blistering hot shop.
From the village street, we walked to the medieval fort. There was a defensive fence around the moat. Florence touched everything she could and ran excitedly around the streets. Florence liked history, and I believed childhood should be one big field trip.
After lunch, we went to the Old Castle and saw a show with trained eagles, vultures, hawks, and falcons. They had been trained as hunting birds as they would have been in the Middle Ages.
I like the birds the best of everything here,” Florence said as she tried to catch a hawk that flew overhead.
When the show was over, a falcon flew up to us in the stands and perched. I felt like a queen standing next to it.
By Ruth Paget, Author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
Click here for: Ruth Paget's Amazon Books
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