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...

Saint-Martin-le-Beau: A Small Village in the Cher Valley

We continued through the Cher Valley to Saint-Martin-le-Beau, another small village in Indre-et-Loire which we visited on 10 September. Arriving with the motorhome was slightly more complicated than we had expected because almost everything here feels small and...

Dierre: A Peaceful Stop Beside the Cher

After Athée-sur-Cher we continued only a short distance through the countryside of the Cher Valley before reaching Dierre, another small village that we would probably never have discovered without travelling through France by motorhome. We stopped beside the River...