We ordered the salmon, salmon tartare, and chicken breast for supper on Day 2. The salmon tartare was very good - at least I thought so. We also shared a bottle of Lorenzini, an Italian pre-dinner drink that is stupidly cheap here - I paid something like 4 or 5 euro for a 1 litre bottle. I checked saskliquor.com and something similar at home is $17 on sale. We also had a local sparkling wine that was also really cheap.
In the morning we took a train to St-Aignan-Noyers, then a shuttle to the zoo. Thankfully that worked out or we would've been sort of stranded.
The zoo was really good. It was quite hot (around 31C), but there was a lot of available shade as the zoo has been around for decades so it has lots of mature trees from all over the world. There was pretty much every imaginable type of animal to see, including some we hadn't ever seen before such as weird little monkeys and things from australia and asia. I would say the place overall was comparable to the Calgary Zoo in terms of the diversity of animals and cool factor.
After the zoo we caught the shuttle which appeared on time and then the train from a different town, Blois, back to Tours. On the train ride back we saw several chateau in the distance, including one that we'll go see tomorrow if everything works out.
We ordered 2 duck breasts, 1 steak, and 1 salmon, but received 3 steaks. It took us a minute to notice but at that point it was already late in the evening and we just ate them. After the meal we made plans for tomorrow to see a chateau in another nearby town that we saw from the train. We also enjoyed a different local sparkling white wine from Amboise. It kind of kills it to drink it out of hotel cups, but that's all we have available. Can't really complain for a few euro per bottle for something that would cost much more back home.
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