Ibis Tours Centre
1 rue Maurice Genest Tours, Loire Valley, Centre, 37000, France
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Leaving the Loire Valley and Chateaux
Due to the weather, we had 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 Franciliene, which was covered with snow and the sides with piled high slush. We …
Back from La Loire
I'm back from the Loire! Friday I had regular class and my first phonetics class. In phonetics we sit in booths and repeat phrases after the professor. The repetitions are recorded onto a tape and then we listen to them to hear the errors. It is really fun and I hope it will help some with my pronunciation though I only get 10 hours of phonetics …
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Orleans and Les Chateaux
... We each had a 25 Euro “Menu”, which means three course dinner, plus a bottle of “Orleans” wine. It was a lovely little place, with very friendly proprietors, and the food was wonderful, as expected in a little French restaurant. I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until Pat writes to get the details, as she is the expert on describing dishes, but needless to say, each course was special, and had complex little additions like pastry ...
Chateaux country
We love Tours. Every town has its own feel and Tours is no exception. Yesterday we set off after breakfast and got back in the evening after dark - quite a day!
At least Tours is a sort of grid pattern so we haven't been lost once so far! I reckon we walked at least 5 km for the day; sometimes there is no other way to see what you want to see. It is too daunting to conquer a bus system, especially to reverse it and get back, and mostly impossible to find a taxi or ...
Touring in Tours
... the views. The countryside is fairly flat but green and, with pretty little towns often with a church spire in the middle.
There was a panic moment for me when I went to use the loo on the second train. I tried to open the door like I did on the first train but it wouldn't budge eventually I saw the button with Poussez near it and realized it was one of those automatic ones. Everyone was just watching me! I was committed then and had to keep reading the signs to close the ...



