L'Univers Tours
5 Boulevard Heurteloup Tours, Loire Valley, Centre, 37000, France
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Touring Tours
Tours is quite a large city in central France that we've driven through a couple of times but never had time to stop in - until now. We'd been impressed on our way through by the buildings so made a special stop to look around thoroughly.
The buildings in Tours really are something special. There's loads of old houses, many of which are …
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Orleans and Les Chateaux
January 6 Bonne Anniversaire Pat, and Jeanne d'Arc!
Well, what an amazing city! They put on a huge event for Pat’s birthday with thousands of people gathering at the Cathedral, but more on that shortly.
After a day of bicycling around the town following some of the suggested tour routes and gawking at the old town of Orleans, and after an afternoon rest at our "camping" spot parked by the river, we adjourned for a lovely dinner out at ...
Chateaux country
... term a Renaissance man, extraordinary people like he and Michelangelo who could straddle so many disciplines with such mastery. As a painter I have my favourie paintings, and it is touching to know Leonardo kept the Mona Lisa with him in all his moves until he died. I have succombed to the environment and have decided I would like to build an arch and make a column before I shake off this metal coil. I'm not sure where I place these in our property in Bittern, but what the ...
Touring in Tours
... gloves, it is a challenge to access the bag, backpack or camera in a hurry! In addition, we are wearing the same clothes in all the photos, no matter what we wear underneath because we are always rugged up. The French pretty well all wear black chic coats and the children are bundled up in parkas and gloves, many with Christmas decorations or Santa hats. Their associations with Christmas are a long way from heat, holidays and beaches!
I will have to change my writing habits now ...
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 ...



