Well we had a slow start and then headed down to the local town to do some shopping for water and milk bread and croissants and its only five minutes down the road and so most convenient.
We have decided after lengthy review that we would leave here on Friday morning and take a slow country drive to Limoges where we would stay the night at the fairly new Kyriad Hotel Este which is on the outskirts of Limoges. Most of the Hotel in the town require street parking which we do not like as we leave a lot of our stuff in the car when overnighting. From there we will go back to Tours which we really enjoyed last time when walking around the old part of town without a camera and so that would be a nice thing to do. We tried to book at the same Hampton by Hilton Hotel which we stayed in on the way down but it was full, which was a little bit surprising, and so we opted for its sister Hilton Garden Hotel across the square. So we booked two night using our saved Hilton Points and then worked out where to stay next as its a longish drive to Calais from Tours and then either stay overnight locally and/or catch late ferry home but that makes for a very long day.
So we agreed that a night in Rouen which is a nice old city on the River Seine and we would stay a the same Hotel as per our last visit many years ago during the month that Christopher Denovan-Smith was born( boy do we remember that time when driving in the suburbs of Rouen with no mobile signal) anyway we have booked the Marriott Autograph Hotel called Hotel de Bourgtheroulde which is an old Hotel right in the middle of town, not cheap but a good way to polish of the trip. From there the next morning we will drive to Calais and we have changed our ferry booking to the 1635 DFDS and with plenty of time to get there and do some shopping if we are looking for a time filler.
For lunch we had baguette with the left over Salmon from the previous evening before settling down to a restful afternoon reading and looking at stuff on the PC. In the evening we finished off the two pork chops and cooked amongst tomatoes and served on a bed of pasta. Following dinner we watched a disaster movie on Tv and then off to bed, EXCEPT Noel was just checking his emails and noticed one form the Hilton Hotel in Tours advising that the whole place will be road closed due to the annual local marathon run which will cause havoc to the area and mess up all the car parking. Over 5000 competitors are expected plus all the people watching and family members and so the whole place will be packed including car parks, restaurants and this explained why we could not get a room in the Hampton Hotel, so in a word bugger!!!
Oh its to late to worry about this now so lets leave until the next morning and decide then what to do. Having spent a couple of hours on planning its a damn shame we sort to have to start over again.
As an aside noticed that the Governor Of Florida has made the decision that Florida will be the place where the guy who tried to shoot Trump whilst playing golf, will be charged and not sent to FBI HQ and charged by the same people who are currently trying to charge Trump with all sorts of ‘Trumped up charges’
