A good way to celebrate

Our hotel in Honfleur

A week ago today we were celebrating our anniversary by setting of for a first ever stay in Rennes after a lovely couple of days in Honfleur. We decided that we would stop for lunch en route at the nearest town or village to midday. That ended up to be the Normandy town of  Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny.

On arrival the town reminded us of the border towns of Scotland which was welcoming but with a blue sky! 

We headed up the main street in search of a restaurant and this quirky place caught our eye. 

It proved to be as quirky inside as out and we had a nice lunch. 

We returned to our car down a different street to check out more of the town which was looking more Scottish by the minute!

Then it was onto Rennes and an evening out to continue our fun celebrations!

Loches,lunch,a local walk and celebrating 42 years!

We packed in a full day yesterday which started with a visit to Loches and its market...

we included a coffee stop and a bit of people watching.

Then it was on to Chemillé-sur-Indrois, to have lunch at Le Moulin de Chaudé, something we had said we would do one day after a walk around the lake  here with our friend Karen way back in 2012 (surely not?)

We were celebrating our 42nd wedding anniversary  

and having the place to ourselves the lady of the house helped us celebrate. 

Then to walk off lunch we walked over to the beautiful village of Montresor and back  (8km).

It had been a little cloudy but we had been aware all morning of a very bright sun trying to break its way through.

Friends wont be surprised that we somehow wandered of the marked route, think paying too much attention to these animals cost us dearly!

As it happened it wasn't greatly different from the actual route but brought us into Montresor at a different point. On realising this we backtracked a little and picked up the yellow markers again and followed them into the village.

By the time we entered the sky had turned back to the blue we have been having over the last week or so here in Touraine.

We took advantage of the shade at 'Cafe de la Ville' for another 'pit stop'. Then after a visit to the Tourist office and a chat with Rebecca,who is now working here permanently (she used to be in the office at Le grand Pressigny), we back tracked to visit the  'Exhibition le Gemmail' in the 'Halle des Cardeux' 

Glad we did! it was beautiful...

Then we walked through the streets of this beautiful village as we have done many times before...

before heading out along what was the old railway line (I think)...

back to  Chemille-sur-Indrois and our car. 

Great way to spend a day out even though we had to end it by a visit to the supermarket at Loches for our weekly shopping...reality often gets in the way!