{"id":104,"date":"2012-06-11T22:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=104"},"modified":"2015-03-15T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T20:39:43","slug":"day-4-beaune-france-monday-june-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Beaune, France – Monday, June 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was another beautiful day, right up until we got home – great timing.\u00a0 Today, we spent on our feet, walking up and down the streets and alleys in Beaune, and walking through the dark, dank \u201ccaves\u201d of the Patriarch \u2013 a \u201cnegotiant\u201d with the largest wine cellars in the Beaune area.<\/p>\n

The architecture in Beaune is spectacular.\u00a0 I\u2019m forever fascinated with roofs and doors, and there was no shortage of either to photograph.\u00a0 Historical sites are mixed with retail businesses, that are mixed with other businesses, that are mixed with residences.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s difficult to tell what\u2019s what.<\/p>\n

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The fun part of being on vacation is allowing yourself to go inside the patisserie, buy the chocolate eclairs in the window, and eat them while sitting on a park bench watching the world go by – without any guilt!<\/p>\n

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The Patriarche<\/a> caves are recommended not only because they are the largest, but also because the self-guided tour (in French, English, or German) is very well done and you get to taste many different wines.\u00a0 We thought we might do this tour another day, but came across the building while wandering, so took advantage that it was only 2pm.\u00a0 Some sections of the caves were built as early as the early 18th century, all are under the streets of Beaune, and they run for 5km.\u00a0 Fortunately, only about 100 meters are open to the public but, by the time you poke into all the corners and stop to take pictures, you really do feel like you\u2019ve walked all of it twice over.\u00a0 For someone who\u2019s never been in such a vast wine cellar before, I was awestruck by the warren of pathways, the volume of real bottles (3 million) full of real wine waiting for real people to drink them, and by the ambiance in the tasting areas and the quantity of wines available to taste (3 whites, 9 reds, no limits to how many times you refilled your glass).\u00a0 We felt it was great value at 13\u20ac each, and we got to keep our tasting cups or, as I like to call them, adult sippy cups.\u00a0 The only thing missing was bread to soak up some of the alcohol because, although they provided lots of buckets to spit after each taste, we, of course, swallowed all the little bits because we are on vacation and can (I\u2019m guessing we each had the equivalent of a glass despite the option of refills).\u00a0 We bought a bottle of Santenay red (we drove through Santenay yesterday), and a bottle of Cremant Brut, the Champagne of Bourgogne, which we will bring home with us.<\/p>\n

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All that walking made us tired, and all that tasting made us hungry.\u00a0 So we made our way back to Place Carnot and found an outside table at Le Cafe Brasserie La Concorde where we enjoyed a fabulous Boeuf Bourgignon<\/a>.\u00a0 Steve started with a beer and Jambon Persille and I started with Perrier (I was the DD) and 6 garlicky Escargots.\u00a0 We shared une Tarte au Pommes and 2 scoops of sorbet drizzled with Cassis.<\/p>\n

All in all, we\u2019ve had a very good day and I\u2019m a little sleepy now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was another beautiful day, right up until we got home – great timing.\u00a0 Today, we spent on our feet, walking up and down the streets and alleys in Beaune, and walking through the dark, dank \u201ccaves\u201d of the Patriarch Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaune","category-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}