L'Univers Tours

... I know I'll wonder how I did so much living in so little time. <br><br> Something special happens to an estate that's been around for almost 250 years. It starts to take on it's own personality, and through that it attracts the type of people that would make what it is that much better. My hosts at La Meslerie treat the people that visit with such undying grace and character that it's easy to chock it up to some mystical ...

... that straddles the River Cher and is surrounded by gardens which even though its late October are still stunning. Inside over 3 floors we take in the places beauty - all of the rooms werer specatuarly painted withj deep blues, green and gold finishes, fine tapestries hang down the ceilings, large oil paintings litter the walls, period furniture gives us an insight into the life of its inhabitants over the years. This chateau wowed us!<br>

... another lot of her famous hamburgers - fine grade meat patties on a french bagette loaded with stinky camembret (yum), tomato, spanish onion and lettuce and of course washed down with a glass or two of Rose - good work! After dinner we went out exploring. A lovely little town of around 10,000 with its chateau on the hill its main attraction. We had read it was best from the outside and so we obliged.<br ...

... levels. Although, I have to say, it wasn't exactly what I had expected, there were several more explosions than I had pictured (between food grade hoses, tractor tires, and tractor engines it was quite a few mind you), and I never really pictured myself drinking Calvados at 7 a.m. with a team of transient Bulgarian grape harvesters. But after having survived through the process, it ...

I took a day trip into Tours, which is the biggest city around here. It's a pretty amazing places, I still have a lot of exploring to do here yet, but I wanted to post some pictures of my first trip that I took into Tour alone.<br><br>Enjoy<br>

... candies are made and a demonstration as well. My favortie that we saw was the hard candies which are made by first taking a large box and filling it with corn starch. Then a mold is pressed into the corn starch to create a grid of little holes. After that the boiling hot candy-sugar mixture is poured into each hole. The candies are let to dry for 2-3 hours and then sifted out of the corn starch. Finally they are hand polished to remove the corn starch and ...

... with 5mins to spare and do 3 times of drying, I thought synthetics were quick drying, apparently not. When I return Helios and I hunt for Asus notebooks on eBay, we came up with the great idea to buy me one and then sell it when I return to Australia, they 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 ...

... interesting but a little touristy for our liking. We like trying to act a little more like locals even when we wear white shoes(which evidently gives the Americans away) and don't talk the language. It is fun to try and fit in a little. I'll write more if anything else interesting happens between here and Blois but I don't see much of that happening which might be somewhat nice for a change.

... kk haarata, mida me loomulikult ei teinud! Kõige kummalisem juhtum oli vahetult enne hotelli saabumist, kui praktiliselt keset liiklust jättis üks neiu oma auto seisma, et pagasnikust rahakott välja õngitseda. Ja see polnud veel kõik: süüdimatuse tipp oli siis, kui ta jooksis teisel pool teed asuvasse poodi! Auto jäi lihtsalt ohutulede vilkudes valgusfoori taha ootele... Järgmise päeva hommikul tiirutasime vanalinnas; möödusime ülikoolist, kus ...