Back to the heart of France

Tuesday September 5

Today, having discovered that there was no left luggage service at the train station, we left our bags at the hostel and headed in to explore Blois in a little more depth. We started off at the Château de Blois, an older brother of Château Chambord and former capital of France, however it was neither as grand nor as fairy-tale inspiring as the Château from yesterday. It did however have an impressive spiral staircase - also not as impressive as Chambords double-helix - and great views over the city and the river.

After the castle, we took the stairs down the valley-side to a church then back up the hill again to the cathedral before stopping for a coffee and heading back to collect our bags.

We got back into Paris at around 6pm and had a reasonable early night before a flying day tomorrow.