Day 3 - Bois, Tours, Bordeaux region

Day 3 - Bois, Tours, Bordeaux region

Another early start - our bags have to be outside the doors ready for pickup by 7am. We have breakfast and left at 8:30. Today will be mostly a long drive to the Bordeaux region of France.

We stopped at a small town called Bois which was quite lovely. There is an old Castle. the man who invented the pressure cooker lived here - Boston would be proud :/
Another famous inhabitant was Houdini. There is a museum and when you walk near it, monsters come out. Some of our group found it but despite walking around and around, one of the other girls and I couldn't :(.

The best chocolatier in France also lives here. We all lined up at his shop and bought choccies. I got a chocolate eclair, a florentine and some hand made chocolates. Have only eaten the eclair so far and it was delicious.

Our next stop was a bigger town called Tours. It is Sunday and almost everything was closed. Not a very interesting place at all and Maccas was the only place to get coffeee, without a meal. I would have preferred more time in Bois.

This was followed by a very long drive along the motorway to Kyriad Prestige, Merignac, which is near Bordeaux. The hotel is 4 star and just wonderful. Our dinner was superb - a brioche with vegetarian filling, salmon, and a lemon dessert.

I still have no voice :( . The drive today was long but probably what everyone needed to have a break from tons of walking. We are all in our rooms relaxing.

Tomorrow we are off to Barcelona!