Paris to Bordeaux

So today we drove from Paris to Bordeaux via Tours (this is an ALL DAY drive) so snoozing and drooling may have occurred between comfort stops. I think today can be described as the day of desserts-3 in total. 

Tours is a beautiful old town with a gorgeous cathedral and a large square. The square is surrounded by restaurants. Tours is the town where Joan of Arc was born. She was only 14 when she first lead the French army and 19 when she was burnt at the stack by the English.  After a walk around in Tours Brandon and I had crepes for lunch - how can you not! Brandon's encryption skills proved adequate today-( may be able to join MI5). After requesting an English menu we were provided with a double page listing words in French and the English, Italian and German words for the food item. So to know what was on each of the crepes, we needed to refer to the translation page. As you would expect Brandon took on this challenge with great gusto! 

The food and wine was incredible - I must admit I was expecting artichokes instead of scallops but Miam Miam (yum yum).  So how can you leave a crepe place without dessert, we had a Normande crepe, drenched in Calvados - we may have come back to the bus (with great pace as we were running late) a little merry. 

We were last to arrive on the bus for the following reason:

 This was a necessity. We had a bit of a laugh after looking at the above picture, Brandon realised that the little card says "happy Mother's Day" - it was delicious.

Then onward to Bordeaux. A few drinks at the bar with the group, 3 course dinner (yes dessert #3 - creme brûlée), we then trotted around Bordeaux. It only gets dark at around 10pm so photo opportunities were fabulous. Unfortunately all the photos are on our cameras so none of those have made it into this post.

So Bordeaux is know for its wine region but also Eleanor of Aquitaine married King Louis VII (French) here only to later marry king Henry II (English king). 

So as identified by Brandon we have a minor shower curse: 3 out of 3 showers have been challenging-the Mercure in London-the cold water tap came off as I tried to turn it on- no cold water for the 3 days we were there even though we did mention this (many times) to reception. The shower in Paris was Iluminous  orange  (the doors with bright pink with lime green walls-quite the look) and required a crane to host you into the bath to get to the shower as the side of the bath was so high. Shower 3 in Bordeaux had an adjustable shower head - we couldn't get it to stay at the top, so great if you were dwarf size.

We're now en route to Pamplona, Spain via Biarritz.

A tout a l'hure,

Nicolette.