Camping Le Bec de Cisse

Surely one’s first port of call around here should be the vineyards around Vouvray, of which there are several within 10 kilometres. Ensconce oneself in the wine culture of the region with tours and tastings, and while at it, pick up a bottle or two of your favourite plonk to take back to base. Tons of historic attractions are around here too, all within 25 kilometres: there’s a cathedral, the Compagnonnage Museum and Botanic Gardens in the handsome town of Tours, and you can visit the museum (/former home) of famed artist Leonardo Da Vinci at Château de Clos Lucé and its gardens. Château de Chenonceau and Château de Villandry are also an easy drive away. Give tiddlers something to scream about with a visit to Gadawi Park for airborne zooms down ziplines and traverses around its treetop courses, or take them for a slightly more sedate canoe trip on the River Loire from Amboise, both within 18 kilometres of Camping Le Bec de Cisse. If they (or you) are into wild critters, take a safari train trip around Beaumarchais Reserve animal park and keep your peepers peeled for great and fallow deer, boars, ostriches and bison, and follow it up with a tasty game dinner at the reserve’s cosy inn.