Tours!!!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been blogging in a while, I've been rather busy, or well maybe the better word would be lazy ;) In that time though I did do some traveling. The first city a visited was Tours! A beautiful city only about an hour east of Angers. The train was less than 30 euros round trip so me and my friend Anastasia took a little day trip there.

Not knowing much about the city we just banked on the fact that in practically every city in France you can find a beautiful church, an impressive castle, and most likely a pretty river of some sort. We we're lucky and went 2 out of 3 on our presumption. Tours has one of the most beautiful church's I've seen so far in France, and is another one of the many cities in the Loire River Valley Region, but it's castle was not at all interesting or impressive from the outside, and on the inside we found ourselves looking at very specific french photography about the reconstruction of Tours about 60 years ago. It was interesting, but we we're very distant to it, since we had no idea any reconstruction had occurred. It was kind of similar to looking at pictures from the Great Depression in America, but if you weren't american and had a hard time understanding all the short lacking explanations underneath the photos. If you were american you would understand and appreciate them, but otherwise you lack a little emotion... 

So since the cities castle was nothing worth taking pictures of, I have here some pictures of the beautiful church :)

The sun started to shine literally the instant we got off the train, and this Cathedrale could not look prettier with the blue sky behind it!

I thought this to be a little interesting and definitely surprising. One thing one definitely doesn't see often in France is large, bald, leather wearing men, and here we find four of them leaving the Cathedrale in Tours, I had to document it!

This is the inside of the church, I once again tried to show how amazing tall it is, maybe here we can use Anastasia as a reference point.

This is me in front of the Church, it was hard to get the church in entirely behind me, but look at that amazing detail! C'est Incroyable!!!

La Loire et Un Quais, meaning the Loire and a walkway

We stumbled about this completely by accident. It was pretty funny, it just emerged between two stone walls and I caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye. This tree was HUGE! For anyone that's every read Le Petit Prince, this is absolutely the Baobab tree he was afraid of!!!!

This translates to--- "Seeds of the Baobab" The Little Prince, "All baobabs, before growing big, start by being little"

Now if you translate that phrase word by word it doesn't exactly say that, but I'm starting to realize in order to preserve some of the poetry in French you have to translate the meaning of the sentence, not the individual words, otherwise it sounds silly and awkward :) lol