{"id":91,"date":"2012-06-10T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-03-15T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T20:40:26","slug":"day-3-beaune-france-sunday-june-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Beaune, France – Sunday, June 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was awakened by a kiss on the cheek from Steve, who had already showered and made the acquaintance of Katherine, the lady who owns the boulangerie 4 doors down.\u00a0 He came back with les croissants au chocolat! and a baguette, of course.\u00a0 Breakfast was yummy.<\/p>\n

Today we spent in the car, following 2 fabulous recommended routes <\/a>– le Circuit touristique Nord (a drive through wine villages north of Beaune), and le Circuit touristique Sud (a drive through many, many more villages south of Beaune).\u00a0 The country is beautiful, the villages are so quaint and attractive, and the roads are an adventure.\u00a0 Something that looks like a driveway, with walls of buildings right up against the street, is actually the main road through the village.\u00a0 I swear if a resident opened their shutters at the same time a car went by, it would be bye-bye shutters.\u00a0 There are no sidewalks in any of the small villages, so motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians all have to share and get along – and somehow they do.\u00a0 (Torontonians could learn something from these folks – just saying…)<\/p>\n

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And the roads outside the villages – the ones that are barely 2 car widths wide and don’t have any shoulders at all, and that rise and fall and snake around blind corners – have a speed limit of 90km!!!\u00a0 It’s hard to enjoy the scenery when you’re trying to keep up and holding on for dear life.\u00a0 So we took our time, found places to stop to\u00a0take pictures and let others go by us (not that there’s lots of others on these teeny roads), and had a more enjoyable day.\u00a0 It started to rain mid-afternoon, but not enough to dampen our spirits.<\/p>\n

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Somewhere north of Santenay, when we lost the wine route road for a bit, we did come across a little bar\/restaurant where we stopped for un plat du fromage, un plat du charcuterie, and un pichet de vin rouge\u00a0(local, of course)\u00a0to wait out the rain that had just started.\u00a0 There were also local Beaune magazines at the tables, so we snacked and read about the area.\u00a0 Great snack, good rest stop – it\u2019s never a bad thing to get lost on holiday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always the little things that mess you up in another country, the grocery experience of yesterday notwithstanding.\u00a0 It was a bit challenging to get a home-cooked dinner coordinated as I figured out which stovetop burners worked faster than others, and if I turned all the right knobs to get the oven to work.\u00a0 Thank goodness for the internet, as I was also able to determine what Celsius temperature to set the oven at.\u00a0 It wasn’t the best-timed dinner, but we had a pretty good meal, with more local wine.\u00a0 Then we\u00a0turned on the dishwasher to clean up our breakfast and dinner dishes.\u00a0 Even on the Eco setting, it ran for 2 HOURS!\u00a0 It was probably some high-efficiency unit but, as we weren’t familiar with it, it left us feeling like we were energy suckers so we decided to wash up by hand moving forward.<\/p>\n

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I was awakened by a kiss on the cheek from Steve, who had already showered and made the acquaintance of Katherine, the lady who owns the boulangerie 4 doors down.\u00a0 He came back with les croissants au chocolat! and a 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-91","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\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}