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Beaune Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Beaune, France
Beaune
This is a top pick! ... bottles of wine. Just one of many locations they have all over the city (well under the city). The cellars and caves in Beaune are compared to the Catacombs in Paris but lined with wine bottles instead of human bones. It felt like we were walking forever ...
Day 6 - Paris to Beaune
... a very nice, fun cafe, where Bill was able to get his longed-for boeuf bourguingon, and it was delicious. We discovered that Beaune is quite the party town. We passed by a private celebration that was just getting started at around 9:30 and we ...
Bonjour France
... the spiral staircase led to the dining room, we enjoyed a nice breakfast. We then drove into the nearby town of Beaune (pronounced "Borne"). It's a charming town. We had no itinarary, so we enjoyed wondering around the narrow, medievil streets and ...
Wine Tasting in France
... house (up in the mountains) it was sunny and beautiful. By the time we got into town, it was cloudy and freezing! People in France take the longest lunch breaks in the history of the world, so our wine tasting was pushed off until around 2:00 (thank God). ...
A quick update so far
... a beautiful home (Les Hetres Rouges). Actually even tastier confiture was on offer with Julien Clerc playing in the background. Into Beaune, which like all of France so far, is shut.So, in the freezing cold and rain, decided to take a drive out to ...
Une tres bonne journee!
... from everyone, and I feel popular when I open my site and have new comments! Today was a GREAT day in France. The Dijon group went on a little daytrip to Beaune, a small town south of Dijon. We started off at a really cool place-- Hotel Dieu, a HUGE ...
Day 8 There are no whines in the heart of Burgundy
... . The cork allows the wine to continue to breathe. One highlight of the tour was the Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a hospital built by Nicolas Rolin,. Rolin was born into a bourgeois family in Burgundy and ultimately became Chancellor of ...
Give a Dog a Beaune
... leg of the trip I actually stayed in Dijon, but because I engaged in precisely zero activities there, I thought I would log it as Beaune instead, where I did the wine tasting. Got the train down from Reims to Dijon yesterday. It was quite a long ...
Too bad NL.
... the fast rhythm of their traveling, as it is so different from how we were going. This day we had come into a town called Beaune (Boon) and it is a little ancient town where the tag alongs had a bed and breakfast. The owners were very lovely to us and ...
Beaune
... in French mustard comes from Canada (Saskatchewan and Manitoba to be precise). Previously, all the mustard seed was grown in France on land used by “charbonniers”, charcoal burners. The chemical balance in the soil was perfect for growing ...
Oui, c'est très Beaune !
... back and write this as if I'm sitting in Beaune...whereas in fact I am in Padova, as always. "This weekend" I "am going" to France. So I went to Grenoble on Thursday, and after a longgg train ride, I arrived in Grenoble, where my friend Alex is ...
Into the Wine Caves...
... train station, which was quite close. We then got on the train and yet again we got another free train ride! Here in France--unlike Italy--they haven't been stamping our Eurail passes and we have just been changing the dates on the tickets. In fact, ...
Table Art: When All There is to Do is Taste
... ) are the Côtes de Beaune vineyards to the south of Beaune and the Côtes de Nuits vineyards to the north of Beaune. Within the regions are villages, sometimes hyphenated with the name of its most famous vineyard. The local maps and train stations are ...
To Spit or to Swallow? That is the Question
... system of classifying wine regions; the aforementioned Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée. Today there are 450 different wine appellations in France. The Burgundian appellations are divided into four main categories. At the low end of the spectrum are the ...
Enjoying the finer things in SE France
After our wonderful week in Paris, my folks rented a car and we started making our way down through the SouthEastern corner of France with the final destination being Nice. We had about 6 days to make the trip, which as it turns out, had us moving down ...
Cluny and Beaune
... with a vendor who traded a handful of cherries for a treat from his stand. After lunch back at the ship, we headed to Beaune, the capital of the Burgundy wine region, and a town with numerous architectural treasures, as well us a wine tasting Mecca. We ...
Lyon, Macon, Beaune, Dijon
... morning… well, much of the day, at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Lyon. They claim to be the second most important museum in France, to the Louvre. Could be! It is in a 18th C Monastery building in downtown Lyon, and covers two and a half floors. It ...
Underground
... drive to the other side of Grenoble was a drag. Nearly 2 hours later, and we collected our hire car, and hightailed it for Beaune in wine-famous Burgundy. Daragh had been collected at 7.30am, and was cooling his heels in Lyon, waiting for his flight ...
Big road trip
... between Bordeaux and Strasbourg is about as far as you can go in France (about 1100 Km) and so we decided to stay overnight in Beaune - about two thirds of the way. Sandy found a great hotel called Hotel De La Cloche - good, clean room, ...
It's apparently the capital of Burgundy.
I'm in one of those difficult to pronounce places called Blurgh. Well actually Beaune. On a recently opened campsite as the only tent but with maybe 10 caravans and motorhome. Clearly there are people getting on the road this early. I seem to have ...
Het plattelandsleven
Dinsdag 7 mei leek het wel dierendag voor mij. Het begon al in het eerste gehucht waar ik door kwam. Er lag een hond bij een huis. De hond lag los en er waren kinderen bij. Dan aai ik de hond en loop door. Tijdens deze tocht zie je heel veel honden. ...
Beaune and Burgundy
... is located in the heart of Burgundy's wine country. As we entered the town it was everything we expected of rural France. Narrow streets leading to central town square, lots of bakeries and fresh vege stores, little old ladies walking around with ...
Trummelbach Falls to Beaune in Burgundy
... did (foolishly) go into Dole then found it almost impossible to get out again. The roads, go round and round in circles. Beaune is a pretty town with a medieval centre surrounded by a huge ancient wall. We were lucky and were able to get accomodation in ...
Beautiful town - nightmare hotel. Don't go cheap!
... hunted in the forest. The girls found a fantastic big kids playground on the river so all happy. We set off for Beaune in the afternoon. Genevieve was very excited as we passed through snow on the roadside and surrounding countryside. We made the fatal ...
Random pictures & middle of night thoughts
... would hate to use big iPad for listening to podcast tours and carry it around. Cell phones and a new world - everyone in France runs around with a cell phone in his/her hands, texting or calling. Even in the old-fashioned sidewalk cafes that ...
And now we sample Burgundy for a couple of days
Yesterday, we drove through countryside like Willamette valley near Salem, Oregon -- rolling hills and much farmland. Arrived in Beaune a little after noon and Bob was quickly deteriorating into a sick, argumentative bad companion but was looking forward ...
We visit a chateau in Burgundy
... to laugh hysterically and Bob was sure I had lost my mind. Just another little travel moment! This morning the market overtakes Beaune! Wow--streets filled with vendors. We bought great figs and our favorite Medjhool dates for today's picnic at a ...
Allons enfants de la..le Jour de Gloire est ARRIVE
... hoe een instant resevatie voor hotel te boeken onderweg .. (very interesting ..) Feit is dat ik veilig en wel in (niet Tom ..) Beaune ben toegekomen Vandaag trek ik richting Perpignan met een omwegje langs het Viaduct van Milau .. That's it 4 today (@ ...
Beaune
Hi everyone, Finally found a WiFi hotspot here in Beaune. Understanding the wines of Burgundy has been more difficult than we expected. The terms Premier Cru and Gran Cru don't refer the the chardonnay or Pinot Noir wines but rather to the terrior ...
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls
Allo! Today is the final day of our, shall we say interesting trip through the vineyards of Burgundy. It is also MY BRITHDAY!!!! SO breakfast was the same as yesterday only a little later seeing as we only had 1 wine tasting today in the late afternoon. ...