Explore Ile de France: Moret sur Luong

July 4, 2010: the last day my mother was in Paris... Clearly, I'm a little behind. Regardless, on that evening, we decided to try another suggestion from our One Hour from Paris book, and I was pleased with the result. For what it's worth, though, the book seemed to suggest that the town was just ok, while the river was particularly picturesque and interesting... But I found myself feeling the opposite.

Anyway, we visited the little village via train from Gare d'Austerlitz and entered via the medieval gate:

Which Chris pointed out for us:

The streets were charming - a mix of medieval buildings and modern signage:

This particularly beautiful building was for sale. Tempting, non?

We entered a little courtyard off the main drag:

Where we found this fabulous Renaissance facade:

Further off the main drag was a charming church:

Across the street from which stood one of the crookedest buildings I've ever seen:

And in the shadow of which stood the former home of Alfred Sisley, impressionist painter:

As we exited the main drag through another medieval gate (and after a fabulous crepe dinner, by the way), we found this gorgeous scene:

And took a picture sporting our red, white, and blue in honor of the homeland:

A bit further on down the river, we were able to look back to this view of the church:

Although the commercial scene along the river seems to have dried up long ago:

We did gain access to some beautiful views along the canal as we left the town: