La Roche-Posay

From Le Grand-Pressigny we drove to La Roche-Posay for a much more practical reason than sightseeing: we needed to do the laundry. Travelling for weeks in a motorhome inevitably includes days like this, when finding a washing machine becomes considerably more...

Le Grand-Pressigny: Prehistory in the Heart of Touraine

Le Grand-Pressigny was one of the more unusual stops of this part of our journey through France, because this time we had come here specifically to visit the Musée de la Préhistoire du Grand-Pressigny. We arrived with our motorhome and stayed at the free motorhome...

Chézelles: A Small Village in Rural Touraine

Our route through the French countryside then took us to Chézelles, a very small rural commune in Indre-et-Loire, away from the better-known towns and major attractions of the Loire Valley. With barely more than a hundred inhabitants, it is the kind of place that can...

Tours: A Practical Stop Rather Than a Visit

Tours was one of the places along this part of our journey where our experience was determined less by what we wanted to see than by the practicalities of travelling with a motorhome. We would normally have spent some time exploring the city, but we could not find...

Grand Aquarium de Touraine: From the Loire to Tropical Seas

During our journey through the Loire Valley we visited the Grand Aquarium de Touraine, at Lussault-sur-Loire, only a few kilometres from Amboise. After several days spent among villages, châteaux and small motorhome stops, it was a completely different kind of visit...