À Tours! After a six and a half hour flight and a three hour bus ride, not much could seem charming, but Tours did. And after an hour nap, it was downright enchanting. My first day in Tours, I went for a walk in the area around my home-stay. I saw these flowers and these kangaroos in le Jardin Botanique:
Unfortunately, I was still learning to bring my camera with me everywhere, and I don’t have any more pictures (you’re missing out on a shot of the cell phone I managed, entirely in French, to buy in Tours, a shot of my room in Tours, pictures of my first drink in a café in Tours, the first bathroom I used in Tours, the first time I sneezed in Tour, the first time a French person understood what I said in French in Tours, and lots of other incredible things) until we went to Le Château Royal d’Amboise and le Château de Cloux, also known as Clos Lucé (the house where De Vinci died) in Amboise!
The first picture up above is of le Château Royal. To the left is a shot from across the river Loire, to the right one from a roof. Below those are photos of a really pretty salon inside the castle and then Sarah with her boyfriend.
Clos Lucé was also very pretty:
The models of Da Vinci’s inventions in the garden were a blast. Below is what most historians confuse for an early model of a tank with guns on each side that was actually a predecessor of the teacup ride at Disneyland. It spins:
After our visit to Amboise we were all so tired we could only stay out until 4 am dancing. Oh well, there’s always next weekend!
As for the theme of this electronic journal, I was shy about asking to take pictures of people’s dogs, so instead I leave you with the cat on a leash that looks up at me from the balcony below!
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