Melun to Fontainebleau - RAIN

Last night was stressful, trying to figure out where we would stay for Thurdsay night. It seems like it's a lot more difficult to arrange overnight stays here in France than it was on our trip to Austria. I hope it'll get easier once we get to a more traveled part of the route. 
The signage today was much better than it's ever been, I almost never needed to get out my mapping app (I'm using OMSAmd) because there were signs everywhere. 
Left our apartment at 10.30 (their check-out time, I was hoping for later because it was pouring down rain. But we packed everything into plastic bags, and put on some jackets, and started biking. The first stretch had a lot of traffic, it was a very busy route. Then we got to a quieter road, in an area where there were a lot of beautiful houses on the side of the river. Unfortunately since it was raining so hard, I didn't take it very many photos.
Got to Fontainebleau, and were able to get immediately into the hotel room (Ibis budget). Nothing exceptional, but predictable and comfortable, it felt good to get warm showers and put some dry clothing on. After rest and some lunch, we walked around the castle area. Very soon we were wishing we had brought our bikes because there's some beautiful tree-lined avenues to explore, but they're very long! It turns out there's a Django Reinhardt festival happening, we may get tickets for Peter 16th birthday.
A friendly older lady came up to us when we were looking around for street signs, on the way back to the hotel, asking if we needed help. We ended up chatting for 15 or 20 minutes. I think people in France are friendlier than an Austria and Germany; when we did our last trip, that type of thing just didn't seem to happen.
We had a restaurant picked out for dinner, Le Smile, it's right across from our hotel and had really good reviews, typical French food. But when we went there, there was a note on the door saying unexpected closure for personal reasons! So we went down the road close to the train station, there was a reasonable Thai place that we ate dinner at.

This tower picture is for Kenny

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