Lin Sue and Bill travel from Tours to Beaugency, France
Hotel Le Grand, 9 Place du Marechal-Leclerc, Tours Phone 33 2 47053531
Our last day in Tours: After a HUGE breakfast (scrambled egg, different kinds of bread, yogurt, juice and coffee), Bill and Lin Sue headed out for the Sunday flea market. (Bill calls it junk day-we aren't sure whether anyone actually sells anything.)
We took the 11 am train to Beaugency and arrived to find a postcard perfect little medival town. There was no one about as the town was pretty much shut down for Sunday. Our hotel was called the Hotl L'Ecu de Bretagne Beaugency and looked to be a former carriage house and courtyard. It began to rain a bit as we explored the town but as we made our way across the town's bridge (for a long time, this bridge was the only one on the Loire between Tours and Orleans) the weather got mean. Bill decided he didn't want to risk his umbrella before our walking tour even started and so opted to recross the bridge back to town without it despite the nearly horizontal driving rain.
Lin Sue, walking behind him with her umbrella open, was quite impressed by the fact that half of Bill's jacket was soaking while the other was relatively dry. :-)
We stopped by a pizzeria for spaghetti bolognese- which truly hit the spot- before returning to the hotel.
Our room was great. We think that we may have been the only guests staying there as it is so early in the season.
Dinner was great. We upgraded the dinner included in the tour's cost as neither of us were evry excited with the original menu. The chef sent out several amuse bouche including salmon mousse with herbal chantilly, onion and olive tartlets and salmon and tomato tartlets. Lin had a smoked duck salad with curry dressing) to start while Bill ordered the scallop soup. Both of us got the bef fillet (yummy!) Accompanied by salad and potatoes au gratin. Bill had the cheese plate and Lin Sue had the salad chvre chaud. Dessert comprised praline sumpreme (too cakey for Lin Sue) and Chocolate Viennoise (sp?) For Bill - wow
We didn't really venture out after dinner as they shut everything up after 9 and gave us the combination number for opening the main doors. We decided we didn't wan to try it
Our last day in Tours: After a HUGE breakfast (scrambled egg, different kinds of bread, yogurt, juice and coffee), Bill and Lin Sue headed out for the Sunday flea market. (Bill calls it junk day-we aren't sure whether anyone actually sells anything.)
We took the 11 am train to Beaugency and arrived to find a postcard perfect little medival town. There was no one about as the town was pretty much shut down for Sunday. Our hotel was called the Hotl L'Ecu de Bretagne Beaugency and looked to be a former carriage house and courtyard. It began to rain a bit as we explored the town but as we made our way across the town's bridge (for a long time, this bridge was the only one on the Loire between Tours and Orleans) the weather got mean. Bill decided he didn't want to risk his umbrella before our walking tour even started and so opted to recross the bridge back to town without it despite the nearly horizontal driving rain.
Lin Sue, walking behind him with her umbrella open, was quite impressed by the fact that half of Bill's jacket was soaking while the other was relatively dry. :-)
We stopped by a pizzeria for spaghetti bolognese- which truly hit the spot- before returning to the hotel.
Our room was great. We think that we may have been the only guests staying there as it is so early in the season.
Dinner was great. We upgraded the dinner included in the tour's cost as neither of us were evry excited with the original menu. The chef sent out several amuse bouche including salmon mousse with herbal chantilly, onion and olive tartlets and salmon and tomato tartlets. Lin had a smoked duck salad with curry dressing) to start while Bill ordered the scallop soup. Both of us got the bef fillet (yummy!) Accompanied by salad and potatoes au gratin. Bill had the cheese plate and Lin Sue had the salad chvre chaud. Dessert comprised praline sumpreme (too cakey for Lin Sue) and Chocolate Viennoise (sp?) For Bill - wow
We didn't really venture out after dinner as they shut everything up after 9 and gave us the combination number for opening the main doors. We decided we didn't wan to try it
posted by Lin on the Run at 9:01 PM
