Maison Carre Montrichard
80 rue de Tours Montrichard, Centre, 41400, France
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Chateau Tours
... salad on the side. The entrée was a delicious cut of roast beef topped with mushroom sauce with potatoes, a breadcrumb covered tomato, and cooked peas and carrots. The third course was a light salad with a sweet vinagrette and two slices of decadent cheeses made fresh and creamy. For desert we had an amazing slice of baked Alaska. If you don't know what baked Alaska is, it is a cake with two layers of ice cream, in this case vanilla ...
Chateaux country
... where he prayed and in the room where he worked. Downstairs was the kitchen and other rooms of his house, and then in another level below an amazing display of recreated inventions from his drawings. It seems to defy possibility (and a tad unfair I reckon) that one man could have had the capacity to imagine so much and have the engineering and scientific capacity to bring to bear on the beautiful line drawings. This is obviously where we get the term ...
Touring in Tours
... books, and the varied floor surfaces. There was a huge old tree out the front, a Lebanese Cedar about 300 years old. I was so big that its branches were propped up and I thought about how our grandchildren would enjoy climbing it.
We were on a bit of a theme because we saw a Lebanese restaurant on the way home and had an early and delicious meal so that we didn't have to go out again. This older couple had had enough for the ...
Last Full Day In St Cyran du Jambot
... br> Today involved a dummy run to the station at Loches, where we will catch the first of two trains to get to Paris, departing at 7:20 am tomorrow. With more than an hour before sunrise at that time and given the local flooding from the overnight storm, we didn't want to take any chances so we think we have it organised.
We stopped at the local nursery to purchase some ...
French Workman's Lunch in Auberge D'Heugnes
... a good thing, given that we have eaten ourselves silly over the past fortnight!
Lunch was a very pleasant experience with new taste sensations. Not a frog's leg or snail shell to be seen so Kim was understandably relieved, although I think she would agree, her taste for cheese is fairly limited. The French are quite passionate about their cheese and it would be good to spend more time here to sharpen our 'sens ...

