Musee Maurice Dufresnes
The Mus é e Maurice Dufresne mixes and matches its exhibits to dramatic effect. On the left is a 1959 Buick Electra. On the right is something even weirder. If I've read the guide correctly, it's a 1914 Latil artillery tractor. We were on a road trip down the Loire valley from Le Mans and were trying to get a kitten out from under the BMW and Morgan following a stop at a road side bar. Someone picked up a tourist information leaflet about the Maurice Dufresnes museum and, once we'd helped the bar owners get little Agnes out from under the car and firmly back under house arrest, we decided to give it a try. And boy are we pleased we did. For our party, it had something for everyone - steam engines, cars, motorbikes and aeroplanes. And in the old mill building on an island in the River Indre it was wonderfully cool. The watermill still had its machinery in it and in places the water still runs through the building, giving it a wonderfully cool atmosphere on a very hot...