September 1 -- evening in Tours

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Still wandering, still waiting.......

Another image in our collection of "baby clothes we'd have put on a kid in upper elementary" pics.

Note crocheted "beads" on red-headed girl's necklace.

We're pretty hungry by now.  Good thing this pastry shop was closed.  Or, as it turned out, maybe not.....

Bookstore -- "work less, in order to read more."

Pampered plants.

This plant making its own way.

Chimneys.

This one is for rent.  Wish we could see the inside.........

A reference to all the red car pics of a previous year.

From the shape and construction (arch in front of top story) of this house, we conclude the black building is half-timbered.  Under all those shingles.  Odd.  (love the teeny window, to the left of the higher big window)

See the top of a doorway, bottom right?

Here it is -- a rather small doorway -- this person is 5'6".

My first look at the Loire.  It divides France, north from south, and so is extremely important, strategically speaking.  If you blow up all the bridges across the Loire, getting an army from north to south (or vice versa)  becomes problematic.... This would be one reason Tours sustained so much damage in WWII.  We were told that 60% of the city was destroyed...........

I would have loved to have a peek inside the library, but it was closed.  I bet it's like the post office -- pretty familiar-looking.....

This fountain given by the USA in recognition of help given by the people of Tours to our armed forces during the war.

At last, we walked by the restaurant and it was open.

Unfortunately, they probably should have stayed closed.  This was the only place specially chosen as one of our "regional/seasonal/local" places that was disappointing.

It was odd.  Sesame seeds on everything?  Really?

Nothing was .. bad ... but nothing was ... excellent ......

Thinking about it after we left, the thing that convinced me that Something Was Wrong in the Kitchen was that the salt and pepper on our salads was all in one place.  As though someone had said "put 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper on each salad," and the person receiving those instructions had dumped, rather than sprinkling.

That was just too weird.  Even I know better than that............

Ah well.


Walking back to the hotel.

I'd spotted these thready light balls earlier, and here they are, lit up.

My daughter's take on our first day in Tours can be found here.



In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these posts, here is a link to the post that comes after this one.

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