It was time to get moving. Last night with some encouragement from Robyn we decided to head to Normandy. Orleans seemed like a good first leg for the trip. The first few days of the trip the weather had been perfect, but when we woke this morning it was just starting to rain. It pretty much rained the whole way to Orleans though the roads were good and pretty stress free.
Our first stop was the aire which is about 5km from the city center. When we got there the weather was still pretty unsettled so we decided that Orleans could wait for tomorrow and settled in. The one thing interesting was the aire shared its space with the local pétanque club which is the French version of Bocci. Unlike other pétanque games we had watched, this group was really good.
In the evening we decided to take a stroll on the footpath along the River Loire. Not expecting much we were surprised when around a bend in the river about 200 yards from the campground there was a really nice church. Exploring a little further we came into a little village with a park on the grounds of an old Chateau. It was an unexpected find for us.