Bloise to Ambois

We got a much later start this morning, started breakfast after 9:00, and then left the hotel maybe at 10:15. Unfortunately it rained pretty hard for just a short while, we were able to huddle under an awning and get out of the rain. But overall we started very late. We ended up not going to the local castle in town, it just seemed like too much, and you can't do everything.  Plus, we were going to head to a castle that was on the way today.
On the way out of town, the bridge was blocked. There were a lot of bikers waiting around, I asked them why they didn't just go to the next bridge, so we did. Then a minute later, biking down the road to get to the next bridge, I heard a huge shout, and saw that there was a movie shoot happening, of zombies coming out of the water. The bridge was a background for the movie shoot. Very interesting! Right after that happened, the bridge opened and so we ended up going back to that bridge. Cool weather today, 44K but unfortunately lots of hills, they didn't make any effort to keep the bike trail next to the Loire, they went up into the villages and hills. The Chateau that we were going to visit, Château de Chaumont, was very close to the water, but unfortunately still up on a big hill. We started walking up and then decided it was too far, got our bikes, and then started biking up. Walked much of the way up the hill. Then after getting to the top, we decided that it wasn't worth it, and would take too long, so we headed back down again! A long uphill for nothing. The Chateau back in Sully was great, it was actually  immediately next to the trail, very  beautiful.
We finally got to the hotel around 3:00, it's the Ibis budget, which I've always been happy with in the past, and which has always been very central. So I didn't really take a very close look at the map, but it turns out it's actually very far out of town. So this one was a mistake, and now we're here for two nights. We'll probably just go downtown tomorrow and see what there is to see, which is a lot, I think there's three chateaus in town. 
Went to the Novotel next door for dinner, that was the only meal option reasonably close. It was a fancy-ish type of place, though not too expensive. The beef was tough.

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