No photo’s here. This is just a wee update to explain the last two days in more detail. We have tasted quite a few of the local red wines and we are a little distressed to discover that anything ‘half decent’ costs 10 t0 12 Euro’s a bottle at the very least! Burgundy is known as one of the worlds best ones so this is an expensive place to buy wine. We have not really tasted anything below 30 Euro a bottle that we like enough to take home……. so we leave Burgundy without any red wine! (we did buy 4 bottles of quite tasty White Burgundy tho’, but even that was an average of 7.5 Euro a bottle)
Compared to Alsace, Burgundy is more like the ‘rural’ France that most of us think of, slightly run down and dilapidated but in a nice way. We had intended to visit Dijon but due to the nearest Aire being sited right next to a very noisy community centre that looked set for an all night party we skipped Dijon and continued our journey Northwest towards Chablis.
We have stopped tonight (Friday) in the town of Semur en Auxois, which has a fortified village centre that we shall be looking at tomorrow. Having just had a lovely meal washed down with a nice bottle of Bordeaux (shush, don’t tell anyone!) I have just updated the blog...
Till next time…………….
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