Blériot53
Captain
Flight distance : 6188465 ft
France
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It's many years since I first visited Lassay les Chateaux. The town lies in a depression rather than a valley, and its central chateau is to a large extent hidden by tall, mature trees to two sides and by the town to the east. A guided tour proved fascinating. The elderly guide, who to me was the French equivalent of ( and a dead ringer for) the British celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah, had lived most of his life in the chateau, having been born into service, as his mother worked as a maid in the .... there. He needed little encouragement to show us the workings of the drawbridge and allowed a couple of us to work the mechanism. It was a heavy lift, even with the pulley system. Back then, the roofwork was in a sorry state, and renovation work has been going on ever since (hence the scaffolding on one tower)
There are two points from which a good drone approach can be made and, with the Zoom facility of the M2Z, reasonable images can be obtained without transgressing the NFZ.
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