There are many small hedged gardens. The finale of the visit is a 'tractor train' which takes you on a tour of the grounds which are too extensive to cover on foot. After lunch in the restaurant continue on to the Chateau d'Attre. A walk through the grounds leads one to a 'hermit's grotto' high up in the woods behind the house. Continue on to Mons for an overnight stop.
Dinner is at the hotel.
Friday, April 19. After breakfast in the patisserie attached to the hotel we leave Mons for Le Chateau de Sombreffe. Its two fourteenth century keeps are particularly prominent. In the afternoon it is on to Annevoie one of the most beautiful of European gardens. Owned for hundreds of years by the Monpellier family the gardens were designed and laid out in the middle of the 18th century.