Beaune, 2013

After a quiet night in Autun--parked between a Roman theatre, a lake, and the town cemetery!--we drove on to Beaune, a place we have visited many times before and about which I blogged in 2011: http://roadeveron.blogspot.it/2011/07/beaune.html. We got there in the morning early enough to claim an actual camping-car space at the aire, which is always crowded well beyond its capacity. While Vicki spent the day resting and relaxing, reading and researching, I walked all over the town, spelunking (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk), and sampling the contents of the various caves. FWIW, I finally bought a bottle of Chassagne Montrachet.

Approaching Beaune, and not far from Meursault; not quite
up to harvest

When harvest comes, it will be done by one of these weird
machines

Unlike France's other wine regions, Burgundy seems to have
enough self-regard to permit humor; there's a whole line of
these cards, which I adore

It's a pretty town, an old and historic town, but alas I did not
take many pix on this visit

We had dinner at a place called Bistro de Bourguignon, and
forgot to take pix of my snails, Vicki's boeuf de bourguignon,
my steak tartare...until her creme brulee arrived...plus there
was a nice couple from New Jersey at the next table who
seemed quite interested in our life story...

Walking back home by the Hotel Dieu

And its light show

Thus

And thus