Loire Valley (Orleans)

Much dreamed about and talked about and finally we are here! It was quite a few hours on the motorway (expensive tolls) before we reached the most eastern end of the Loire Valley at Orleans. Got to the hotel at 530pm and plonked on the bed for an hour nap before we did anything else. Got up feeling a bit hungry and had our nicely packed vietnamese food for dinner. It was a good idea to "ta pao". We then took a 5 min drive into the city centre where they were having a festival, there were some live bands, livestock for kids to be amused at, a manual hand turning carousel for 3 toddlers to jump on.... cute.... antique.







Had a relatively early nite as we will start our tour of the Valley of the Kings tomorrow morning.