We had a choice between seeing Tours or Orleans, and Tours won.
(I apologise for the paucity of the following entries, but we have no free wifi at the moment.)
Just as we left the train station we saw a Petit Train just about to leave. These are small trains for tourists that run past points of interest. We'd noticed one in Nantes, so we decided to take the tour in Tours, so to speak.
The train took us past the Basilica of St Martin, Charlemagne's Tower, the old town, the banks of the Loire and the Cathedral.
Based on an internet recommendation we visited the Musée de Compagnonne (Museum of Companionship). This is a museum dedicated to the masterworks of craft guild apprentices and so is full of weird objects and craft works. Well worth seeing, some photos from it appear below.
We had lunch in the Old Town and went through a few of the shops before checking out the Basilica of St Martin and the nearby museum which taught us more about the cloak ripper than we ever wanted to know. The English on the exhibits ran out just before the archaeological section. We assume Romans were involved.
Then off to the Cathedral and the Museum of Fine Arts that had a collection of justly neglected works - and a surprise Monet and Ernst.
We hope to return to Tours, one day just wasn't enough.
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