Cruise Day 9 - Thursday - Bourg
Two tours today: an all day visit with a long coach drive to the town of Cognac and the Remy Martin distillery, or a morning walking tour of the ancient hill town of Bourg. We took the latter.
The walking tour leaves at 10:00 and returns at 12:00, visiting the old town of Bourg, its Citadel and carriage museum and the historic surprise kept to the end. (I'll keep it a surprise so as not to spoil it for future cruisers.)
As usual, there was free time at the end and the guide suggested a street of shops that led off the square where she released us. We continued up that road to the top where in another square at the highest point was the Boutique Vins de Bourg.
They spoke English and gave a free tasting of the wines of the day and below was a light arched limestone cellar with almost 200 different Bourg wines for sale.
The disembarkation talk was that night, followed by the Captain’s Farewell Cocktail and a Gala Dinner, the disco night with the ships musician. The recommended red was a Bordeaux, huzzah! It was the grandly titled Dourthe La Grand Cuvee Bordeaux Rouge, a negotiants wine sold by Carrefour for €7.20.
We received, at last, our invitation for dinner on Friday at the gourmet L’Amour. Every passenger is promised at least one invitation to L’Amour during this trip. Passengers on the top deck also receive invitations to eat at La Rive.
The boat remained moored overnight at Bourg.
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