Bonjour family and friends. We arrived in Paris on Thursday after a pretty easy direct flight. After picking up our much too large car, we headed toward Burgundy. Note: if you want an automatic transmission in Europe, they will often give you a large car.
We started driving and made a stop at Vaux le vicomte. It's a palace estate with some typically French gardens.
From there, we finished our drive to Beaune, our base of operations in Burgundy. We checked in, got dinner and crashed. We slept about 12 hours.
Saturday, we visited the city market. It was a big market with lots of produce, meats, cheeses, olives, and a lot of handicrafts as well. It started raining, so we paid a visit to the Hôtel Dieu. It is a medieval hospital that was built to give the poor a place to receive free care. It was built in the 15th century and was in use as a hospital until a new modem hospital was built a few decades ago.
On Sunday, we started our day with a drive to some of the nearby wine villages, and the Rochepot Castle. It was built in the 15th century and then destroyed during the French revolution. It was later purchased by a former president and gifted to his son. The family restored it.
Sunday afternoon we took a wine tour to several wineries in different villages. It was interesting to taste the same two grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay) at each tasting and comparing the effects of different areas, even only a few hundred meters apart. The variety of flavor was remarkable.
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