To help celebrate my becoming an old age pensioner (65) (without a pension btw, as have to wait an extra year for that) friends Jane an Peter laid on an evening of fun. Picked up from the door and whisked off to the 'Hotel de France' in Loches for dinner with fizz and nibbles en-route.
We had a very nice meal in the hotel's lovely restaurant where the staff even pushed the boat out to help me celebrate!
It is a place we have really paid little attention to in previous visits to Loches, other than to peek into their courtyard off Rue de la Republique but after this visit we would highly recommend it.
Their rather innocuous frontage on Rue Picois belies what lies behind it.
After dinner we headed over to Montresor to check out their 'Nuits Solaires'
We arrived to the sound of a siren blaring away and almost complete darkness! It was after the official start time of the event but this would not be unusual here in France!
We walked along the river patch following the sound of music and eventually cam across the musicians playing in the darkness.
After a few minutes we decided that it was all a bit underwhelming and decided to walk into the village to see if anything was going on there. On the way there we asked people who were sitting looking on to the chateau if it would be illuminated - they said it should already be but there seemed to be a power cut! We walked through the town in the dark but just as we reached the Mairie the lights came on!
We headed back down the the river walk to see what difference that made...
This was a bit more like what we had expected...
Great fun night in great company!
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