Alastair,
A good plan but thwarted :-) - but thanks. We would have been staying on 9th September for one night only - as we will be en route to our house just outside Confolens.
Karen has decided on a plan B - which is a nice long lunch at a posh chateau near Tours and a late arrival home.
But I am interested on the old tourist road - I hadn't thought of that route but it's a brilliant idea. Is that Chatellerault, Chauvigny, past the crocodiles, Lussac, L'Isle Jourdain and then what? Would you go East of the river or west past the Val de Vienne circuit?
Cheers
Nick