Today was mostly a travel day. We got up early and made our way to the Oslo Airport where we grabbed a flight to Paris. Once in Paris, it was lunch time so we tried looking for a restaurant in the airport. No luck for anything that Catherine could eat. Apparently CDG terminal 1 hasn't gotten with the trend of more & better restaurants in airports.
Getting out of CDG proved a challenge. We had to wait for half an hour to buy a train ticket into town as our train to Tours left from Gare Montparnasse. The machines kept breaking and there were only a couple of them. It was a zoo.
We finally got on a train into the city and connected over to the train station via the metro. For some reason, there are a tone of small staircases in the metro, which was hard for Catherine. I have no idea what disabled people will do.
We arrived at the train station about an hour before our train (even though we had over 3 hours to make the transfer) and found a place where we could at least get something edible even if it wasn't very good. Canned tuna salad Nicoise and a reheated Croque-Monsieu.
The train was a high speed TGV that blasted us to Tours very efficiently. Once in Tours, we checked in to our hotel and walked around the old town of Tours a little bit. It was busy because the university just started so all the students were at the bars, but the town was really beautiful. There were a ton of old houses made of brick and big, exposed, wooden beams.
After exploring, we went for dinner. It was a little unfortunate for Catherine because all of their sauces were thickened with flour so she could only get a basic piece of steak as a main course. She did get a broiled local cheese with maple syrup as an appetizer and a creme brulee for desert, both of which were excellent. I had a piece of duck with chanterelles, which was great, and for desert, some peaches floating in a verbena syrup, which was terrible. The peaches were hard and tasteless. The house wine was great though, especially the red Anjou, which was delicious even though it was made with Cabernet Franc.
Getting out of CDG proved a challenge. We had to wait for half an hour to buy a train ticket into town as our train to Tours left from Gare Montparnasse. The machines kept breaking and there were only a couple of them. It was a zoo.
We finally got on a train into the city and connected over to the train station via the metro. For some reason, there are a tone of small staircases in the metro, which was hard for Catherine. I have no idea what disabled people will do.
We arrived at the train station about an hour before our train (even though we had over 3 hours to make the transfer) and found a place where we could at least get something edible even if it wasn't very good. Canned tuna salad Nicoise and a reheated Croque-Monsieu.
The train was a high speed TGV that blasted us to Tours very efficiently. Once in Tours, we checked in to our hotel and walked around the old town of Tours a little bit. It was busy because the university just started so all the students were at the bars, but the town was really beautiful. There were a ton of old houses made of brick and big, exposed, wooden beams.
After exploring, we went for dinner. It was a little unfortunate for Catherine because all of their sauces were thickened with flour so she could only get a basic piece of steak as a main course. She did get a broiled local cheese with maple syrup as an appetizer and a creme brulee for desert, both of which were excellent. I had a piece of duck with chanterelles, which was great, and for desert, some peaches floating in a verbena syrup, which was terrible. The peaches were hard and tasteless. The house wine was great though, especially the red Anjou, which was delicious even though it was made with Cabernet Franc.
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