She's Making the Big Leap Next Week

This is Stephanie Le Donne's last week of working at her day job. She met our van at the Hotel de Ville in Orleans, where she took us on a city tour that included the city's famous cathedral, which is a monument to the heroin of this city, Joan of Arc. She showed us statues of the famous teenager, and avenues named for her, and then told us about her exciting plan to break free and do her own business full time.

"I hope you don't mind if I give you some of these brochures," she said, pulling a stack from a rack in a city building we were touring. "I have bought a new van, and I take people on private tours of the chateaus, to shopping trips in Paris, and all around the Loire Valley," she said.

With her sweet smile and ability to speak three languages, she's all set up and ready to conquer the tourist biz with her new outfit called Odysee en Val de Loire. She will meet the guests at their hotels and show them this part of the world that she's learned about through her job working for the city as a tourist guide. So the next time you need a tour guide in the Loire Valley, we recommend Stephanie!