Day 228 Mar 20 2015 Orleans France

view from the apartment we rented in France

Day 228  Mar 20  2015  Orleans France

We started the day hoping to see the solar eclipse but between the fog and the smog we did not see the sun at all in the morning.   We picked up our car at the Renault car center and then drove to the apartment to pick up our luggage.  The next stop was at Ikea where we bought some knives, forks and few other odds and sods so we can have picnic lunches as restaurants are expensive in France.  A meal at Ikea cost us 50 CAD and McDonalds cost 40 CAD.  We used the built in GPS in the car and selected a hotel in Orleans.  We spent an hour in traffic only to miss our turn because we were on the wrong side of the traffic, the GPS recalculated and we continued our trip for another 1 ½ hours.  As we were passing Versailles Evy said "I think we are going the wrong way".  The GPS listed a hotel near the English Channel as being in Orleans and since we were blindly following it we were driving in the wrong direction.  We ended up getting to Orleans but it was quite a bit latter than we had originally expected.  Maps of the countries we are going to visit in Europe are on our list of things to purchase tomorrow.