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Tours Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tours, France
Caught a cold in the Loire Valley
This is a top pick! ... , by the way. After it got me sick, trapped in a campground, and even more miserable, this weather can go f**k itself...just saying. Tours is a nice town though, and I enjoyed my stay there. It is pleasant to walk around and not too crowded. I met a ...
Tours of Tours
This is a top pick! ... before being told they were prohibited in the museum (see pictures). Incredibly precise stuff. We only scratched the surface of Tours. It has an astonishing amount to offer for a relatively small place. We didn't even get to experience the legendary ...
The great French wine conspiracy
This is a top pick! ... you what is in the bottle! So in order to know what you are buying you need to understand what the breakdown of the AOC in France or in other words what gets produced where or what 'is' allowed to be produced where. Which really means that if you have ...
tour mini bus, and questions on life
to begin I would like to pose this question. does embarking on a tour in a minibus by myself, make me prematurely old? I hope not, but i have this funny feeling that it may. Last night I dined on fine French Cuisene, and attempted to follow anywhere ...
The Land Before Time
Tours is about an hour south west of Paris and is home to more than 300 chalèts including one give to Leonardo DaVinci by King Francois I. We decided to take a trip to see what Samantha Brown made such a fuss over. We met a tour agent at the train ...
Clean clothes, yay!!!!!!
I'm now in the chateau region of France, not a whole lot to report other then my host was taking clothes to his mom for washing and offered to have her wash some of mine too. so needless to say I'm quite excited about that! nothing better then clean socks ...
Wednesday, thursday, friday
The last few days have gone well. On Wedenesday everything finally seemed to be open so we took advantage and went to two museums. The first was the local wine museum which was a little disappointing as it had very littl e to do with wine itself and much ...
Palle vouz English si vouz pleaz?
I finally made it out of Switzerland. It was actually raining the day i left so it was perfect. Rode the train here which took awhile. I had no place to stay when i got here but a trip to the tourist office and got a place outside the city because ...
Damn it was hot!
... . We then went to a wine cave, where we were surrounded by thousands and thousands of bottles of wine...we then tried a glass, which was good but not enough! Back at the hotel we were content eating, watching the tour de france, and soaking up the ...
Comme les châteaux sont beau!!!
... smell of dinner wafting into my room. We are eating ratatouille like quiche with goat cheese and salad. I love summer. In France especially because that is when Brittany starts eating more than just potatoes. Also, the countdown begins, I now have ...
Tours
Hi everybody! Over the past week we've crossed from Dijon into the midwest of France. Heading out of Dijon, we followed a paved bike lane along a canal for about 20km. Then of course the flat easy rolling was over and we found ourselves in another ...
Spring Break
... , a friend from Egypt, and Caterina, my Italian friend, to all head on a week and a half long journey to the south of France; with the mission of surfing in Biarritz. The whole trip was done in train and planned to explore as many stops as possible along ...
Journey to Bordeaux
... . We did notice many houses sitting inside slopes though, ie built inside them like caves. We hauled our luggage doing a short circuit of Tours. Pretty, tidy. Took a few photos of the Loire. Had a quiche and tart for dinner as we had to catch the onward ...
The next leg
... was Tours as that is what the sign said! However we were actually in a little village about 5 miles outside of central Tours, although we didnt realise this until we had walked a considerable distance around not recognising anything that the guide book ...
Angouleme - perhaps not (part 2)
I get up early as I have decided I want to do a side trip on the way to Tours to Angouleme. I organise my train ticket with a 3 and a half hour stop over at Angouleme from the guides it sounds delightful. In place of its ancient fortifications, ...
Not meant to be
... slices that would truely put Warrandyte to shame, they are light and delicious, we drink some wine with blackcurrent syrup and favourite in France and chat in both English and French, me in both, somewhat. After they leave Coralie asks if I want to go ...
River Loire - Cities, Chateauxs and Gardens
... Festival, St Avertin, near the campsite Fun evening, late on the dance floor A busy Sunday in France ?!?!? 26 June, Sunday Start point: Tours (St Avertin) End point: Blois (Bracieux) Via: South bank of the Loire, through Amboise, ...
Tours
Arret chez Fanch, premiere etape avant d'aller a Dam. Bonne soiree et apero avec Vince et Delphine, Fu et Clo! Arret de l'elec a 20h, pas de gros succes. Une bonne derniere soiree pepere en France! ...
On tour in Tours
... the four of us from work (Rich, Yoann, Steve and I) were off for another boys' weekend - to Yoann's home town - Tours in France. Richard: "If this traffic disappears, we can still make it". As we stared at the parked rows of M25 traffic, perhaps ...
Travelling Ain't Easy
... ; My plan was to head south to a city called Tours. They have a bunch of Chateaus and vineyards and I thought while I was in France, why not head down to and see what France is known for. I went online and booked a 2 night stay at a cozy ...
Leaving the Loire Valley and Chateaux
... to change our plans and travel where there was less snow and without extreme weather warnings (alert orange in France) .The road to get to Tours was not the easiest drive on small departemental roads known as D//// or the national road N, the ...
Tours
Tours is considered a miniature Paris and that is what we were expecting when we arrived. We have been slightly disappointed. There just isn't much to do. There are a couple of big churches and a great midievil square with wood framed buildings but not ...
Tours
... until Sunday to get some much needed rest and then we are off to San Sebastian in Espana! I am very excited to get to Spain; the French people are a little odd to put it mildly. I would also suggest learning French before actually goin to France! ...
A surprise in Tours
... off homeless meth heads with dogs and stopping rabbi's from beating up vending machines because it ate their money. So we arrived in Tours a little confused and from there things only got worse. Like the true genius' we are, we did not write down the ...
The Grandeur, the opulence
... my turn to laugh and explain to them and Helios, he is not my boyfriend but I am staying with him and his girlfriend in Tours. Our next stop is Chateau de Chenonceau, it is breathtaking. I paid for Helios entry into the 3 places as a thank ...
Terrific Tours
... only 2 degrees we walked to the same cafe as yesterday and had a coffee, and considered our plan for the rest of France. The rest of today we have been doing odd bits and bobs, including buying dinner and wine, as well as a few post cards. ...
Lavage du jour
... only cost about 300 Euro and sell for much the same on eBay. They have a wireless internet modem and all railway stations in France have free WiFi, so it will save me having to find an internet cafe and pay as its quite expensive and as I still ...
Tours, France
... was well worth the 30 dollars to not have to deal with the multiple train connections. After spending tomorrow night in Blois, France, we will be heading down to the Barraitz on the French Atlantic coast which is supposedly a small town but very ...