An afternoon in France

Another border, another new country! Just like that!

We're in France... we still have a long drive to Switzerland... Janita, do you need to stop? Mmmm... maybe for an hour... What shall we do? Visit Dijon - lots of mustard there! Oh, but that's a really big city. Do you feel like navigating a big city? Nah, not after driving around Luxembourg city with so much traffic! Yea, but it was worth it in Luxembourg! Mmm I know ... how about Beaune? Beaune? What's in Beaune? A few wine cellars. And it's a small town. Cool, I like small towns - you don't get lost as easily, let's go there. Ok. Let's go to the tourist office and see what we can do. Cool, can we do a wine tour? Yes, but there is also a Hospice here - people come from all over to visit the Hospice! You can't come to Beaune and not go to the Hospice!!!!! (Oh, yes we can, just watch us!) How much is a wine tour? What? Mmm... bit expensive... let's just go to a wine cellar or two instead... Great idea! Lots of fun! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than the wine tour would have been!

A fantastic way to spend a Saturday afternoon :)

Photo above: what aromas does this wine have?

But before wine touring - we needed to do groceries. Always an experience when a. you can't speak the language b. you can't read the labels c. you can't find things in the shop but at least we had the right kind of money!! This grocery store has the strangest name.....!

Wine cellar number 1. We visited this one - called Bouchard Aine & Fils - because you could do a 5 senses tour of the cellar. The young French girl who took us on the tour explained the process of French wine making and it's many intricacies and then explained in great detail how to taste wine properly. It was so interesting and I learnt so much! And there I was thinking I knew a bit about wine already... :)

Now that's what I call a bottle of wine!

The one on the left is 12 Litres! (Note the name...)

In Marche Aux Vins cellar

Enjoying myself muchly

And then the sun came out! WAHOO! That was exciting too - and the clouds looked really cool - so much better in real life :)