Orléans and its maid

The planes, trains, automobiles - and even buses - cooperated wonderfully today, and everything ran like clockwork. My hotel by the station was expecting me. Travel gets no better than that these days.

Before the sun set, I wandered off to explore this interesting town. There's lots of Joan of Arc stuff everywhere:






Then another half-mile on from the main square I finally glimpsed my watery companion for the next week, the Loire:






Allons-y!!! Let's go!!!