A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
I wonder which way I'm meant to go?
This looks great, and it was for about 2km and then the tarmac turned to gravel and I wished I'd stayed on the road. Not that the gravel would have been that problematic had I not had luggage and new tires that I didn't want to puncture. I needn't have worried, the Marathon Supremes I'd bought gave no trouble at all.
Not sure where this is at all. The photo is timed at 14.08pm so I should be closer to Gien but the gps in the phone is giving very erratic results and not many photos are tagged with location data; more's the pity. Anyway, the point of the photo was to show how wide the Loire is and how little water is in it at this point.
By the way if you rollover the photo you get a view point taken after the bridge.
I stopped and had lunch in St Aignan, in Le Routier restaurant called the St Aignan, the menu was adventurous and the food wasn't bad and not too expensive. The place was decorated with taste but the music they played was horrendous. Firstly it was Berlioz, then some other martial russian music, when the theme to Star Wars came on, since I was the only diner, I asked that it be changed. Trying to explain that it wasn't very good for the digestion; the woman was a little offended I fear. But I was amazed that someone who obviously cared a lot about the food and decor didn't consider the music with the same care.