So It Begins ~ Tours, France, Part I

I decided to participate in a month-long course offered overseas by the University of Calgary.

After a two-plane-two-train-one-taxi ride, I spent my first free day wandering the beautiful cobblestone streets of our base: Tours, France.

Lonely Planet's "Europe on a Shoestring" describes Tours as a village "hovering somewhere between the style of Paris and the conservative sturdiness of central France" and is "smart, solidly bourgeois kind of place, filled with wide 18th-century boulevards, parks and imposing public buildings, as well as a busy university of some 25,000 students.

I am now one of those students, and will be for the next 30 days.

Stay posted for tales of the tallest castles and most remote French monasteries as I explore the Loire Valley.

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With Love,

Savage Travels