Saint Florent sur Loire to Oudon

Instead of trying to get to Nantes in one day, I'm taking things easier and just doing 25k today. We've had quite a few days of about 50k, and that gets old after a while. Nice breakfast at this bed and breakfast, no baguettes but nice sliced bread, cheese. The hostess and her husband were also full of advice about the bike path, apparently he is a big biker and has been all around France, and done the same route as the tour de France bikers do. I took some pictures of a few pages of the biking guide book, to help in planning.
We had a pleasant short ride today, lots of stops for plums, which are ripe and tasty. Oudon castle was where we went to take up some time until tonight's bed and breakfast is available. It's annoying that they mostly have a check-in time of around 4:00, though the past couple nights we were lucky and they allowed us in at around 2. 
The castle was fine, medieval. We're getting to the point where we definitely won't do any of this kind of site if it's out of our way, because we've seen a lot of castles. Going up the steps is actually kind of painful, you'd think the biking would make your thighs tougher, which I think it actually does,  but still going up steps is more painful than it normally is.
There's no open restaurants nearby, since today is Monday, and that's a day that many restaurants are closed. So, we went to the local grocery (thank goodness there is one) and got some salads, some bread and butter, some fruit. There was a convenient picnic table nearby that we took advantage of.
I found out that Montargis was hit really badly by the rioting, arson, and looting, just days after we left. A pharmacy was burned down, just one street north of the hotel we were in. Crazy.

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