To start with, Tours is a mid sized town, and we did walk around a fair bit when we got back.
Basically we ate and slept in Tours as there isn't heaps in Tours to be completely honest…but overall, it's not a bad place either.
It is close to a town called Amboise (am-bwahs). This town has two great chateaux to see…The first chateaux we visited was the home of the genius, Leonardo da Vinci. He lived here for the final three years of his life, as a guest of the King of France, of the day.
For some unknown reason, on the day we visited, it was free, so hey, that’s good. In we went and a lovely small chateaux it was, with some brilliant gardens. Scattered throughout the gardens are various paintings on all weather canvas and life size models of da Vinci’s invention’s, this was very impressive.
Overall, it was great to see where one of the most brilliant people ever to have graced the planet, lived…plus, we saw a da Vinci exhibition earlier, in Firenze, so to see where he invented loads of things, was also very good.
The other chateaux in Amboise was the royal palace. Leonardo da Vinci is also buried here. This was also cool and we had a good look around there.
The palace is situated on a hill, overlooking rooftops on one side and a river on the other. Very impressive too, I have to say.After Amboise, we headed back to Tours and the next day we visited a stunning chateaux called Clemenceaux (clem-on-coe). This was a really beautiful chateaux with stunning gardens and wonderful rooms, hallways and a generally stylish feel.
As you can see, Samantha is sitting in front of the chateuax at Clemencaux.We really enjoyed this area of France….close to Paris, but in the countryside, with loads of beautiful countryside and wonderful chateaux to see. Brilliant.
