Beaune Travel Blogs

I arrived in Beaune at noon, just in time to catch the end of the Saturday market.  This market, along with the fact that it is a long weekend for the French, seems to be drawing quite a crowd to Beaune.  I bought three saucisson for 10€--port au noix, au cepes and saucisson au cerf.&nb…

Day 11: Cluny - Beaune 103.5 kms   Yesterday it started to rain and this morning it was still raining. Because of this weather we were a little bit slow and it was almost 10 o’clock when we left the camping site. In front of the camping site we met some nice Belgian girls, who we…

It was an earl morning with my phone alarm going off at 8am. Richard and Sue were keen to show me all the little medieval towns around their village, so I had a few busy yet relaxed days ahead of me. After croissants and coffee for breakfast we were on our way, driving past old villages and house a…

While living in France, I did some sight-seeing in Paris and around the Bourgogne region.

Helen and Earl had not been in Europe before so we decided that, after the relaxing week on the canal, we should see how much we could stuff into a week.  (See "France at 5 MPH) for the first part of the trip.) We had to leave the boat by 9:00 so were up at 7:00 to pack & clean the boat. …

April 2006 - London, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France and back to London for my 18th :)