"It's too hot to go out": in Tours, this summer, we live like in Madrid

A little girl with golden hair is doing a cartwheel in the water.

On the bank, Adeline watches Juliette having fun in this murky and sparkling bottom, where the fish spin.

“When I was little, she remembers, there was so much current in the river that I was petrified.

His Loire is nothing more than a duck pond, with its sandy peninsulas in a dry bed.

So the family, who now lives in York, UK, has no choice but to adapt, "Spanish fashion", smiles the mother, even if it means snubbing the ban on bathing.

“We also eat ice cream,” says Camille, 12, the tallest, going up the ladder under the olive tree.

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