A ginger and white-colored cat peeks out the window of a top-floor apartment in the Loire Valley town of Amboise. In the background, the spire of the Saint Hubert Chapel (Chapelle-Saint-Hubert) punctures the sky. The chapel is located on the grounds of the Château Royal d’Amboise. It’s believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s remains are buried there.
But back to the curious cat… Shawn and I had our first introduction to this chat curieux a few weeks ago. We were sitting at our dining table, enjoying breakfast, when we saw a flash of orange and white fur go by. We live on the second floor (third-floor American), so we were surprised to see a cat running inside the gutters of our building, high above the street below.
A few weeks later, Shawn was opening our wooden shutters when he noticed the cat once again. This time, the furry fellow bobbed in and out of the neighbor’s dormer window—much like a bird on a cuckoo clock.
During the five months we’ve lived here, we haven’t learned the cat’s name, nor met his humans. He’s just one of the animated characters living in our new hometown of Amboise.
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