Saturday, April 23, 2005

First Day in Tours

We arrived in Tours without incident and were able to check into our room early. Thank goodness. Despite all the light filling the room, Bill and I crashed for a couple of hours before venturing out into town.

Le Grand Hotel is directly across from the train station so it's definitely easy to navigate. We went back to the brasserie that had previously offered chevre chaud salad with lardon. Unfortunately, we were too early for dinner and it was not immediately obvious on their menu. We instead wandered to the next place. The young waiter was very funny and while he did give Lin Sue a hard time by pretending there was no Peach Melba to be found (Don't tease Lin Sue like that!!!) we had a fine time. We returned back to the hotel and crashed