Baume-les-Messieurs And Bourg-en-Bresse

It was not our best touring day: somehow we failed to note that it was Sunday, that religious buildings and their art would be occupied and that restaurants would be fully booked, sometimes weeks in advance. Thus, our visit to Baume-les-Messieurs included its (abundant) natural features, not the abbey, and our visit to old friend Bourg-en-Bresse included a Bresse chicken dinner in a bar/resto that was memorable for the wrong reasons. Our main goal for the day was to work our way closer to Chamonix and the Alps, so the disappointments were not all that great. Previous visits to Bourg-en-Bresse are here and here.

In the Jura now, driving into the box canyon that Baume-les-Messieurs
occupies

Steep limestone walls on 3 sides

Caves

Springs

And waterfalls; oh my

Our major cave experience of the trip would occur a couple weeks
later; these caves have been long exposed, and there is no cave art

In the village; it is indeed among the plus beaux villages de France

Sweetie poses for scale

At the bar/resto in Bourg-en-Bresse

The sauce was so heavy you could barely taste the chicken; but 
it was verifiably Bresse chicken

View of the abbey church from our table

Where we have eaten in the past

Now on toward Chamonix, happily avoiding the viaduct of Vicki's
worst nightmares

The camping-aire at St. Pierre en Faucigny was full, but we were
directed to the adjacent parking lot of the Bio1 supermarket, which
was closed: Sunday! At least the parking lot view was nice, and 
we were only an hour's drive from Chamonix