France 18 and 19 June

Saturday 18 June

Headed off around 10 and arrived at our gite in Pouilly-sur-Saone, Burgundy at 8.32pm.  It was a huge day of driving but we saw some spectacular mountain scenery as we passed through the high French Alps and saw the ski resorts now bare of snow.   Chris and Marlene our hosts are very nice and had coffee percolating and a bottle of Rose available for us. 

The Burgundy countryside has its own special appeal.  There are fields of sunflowers just about to burst into flower and fields of corn.  There are beautiful flowers everywhere and just like all over France, the roundabouts are a blaze of colour - lavender, roses, cosmos etc.

                                       

Sunday 19 June



Burgundy architecture



For some reason today seemed to be the day for language difficulties.   We ended up with a very helpful waitress who in desperation, when we couldn’t understand what she meant by ‘schoorree’ went to the kitchen and brought out the curry jar. In the end we think we ended up with more or less what we thought we had ordered and enjoyed it. 

Took an hour or so to take in the quiet countryside and then spent the late afternoon sitting by the canal sipping a beer and swatting the occassional midge.