Citea Residence Besancon Besançon

... count! In Besancon, we visited the Musee du Temps (museum of time) which houses many time pieces through the centuries. We saw the "world's most complicated watch" . Additionally, we saw the Astronomical Clock that has 30,000 parts which run 70 dials giving 122 different indices. Amazing! Besancon is surrounded by a Citadelle /Fortress, which ...

... in style. My highlight was seeing a pair of storks in their giant nest atop a tower. After that it was a short distance to Colmar and a hotel that actually had a kettle and access to an iron!! I was very happy. That night we had the best meal we've had in the Little venice section of Colmar..more about this town next time.<br><br>PS Forgot to mention there was an even bigger well at the citadelle....John very happy!! More sticks and stones dropped down!!

... the other side isn't cut off by any ferries (!). So I cross and there is a tourist information on the other side. With toilets. Which they explain are out of action. And I say I must! So I do. There is no lights and the entrance is an inch deep in water. The toilet tissue is history; there's been a major overflow/leak. But needs must and it does the job. The lady does at least smile when i give her a "when you gotta go you gotta ...

... fairly fitfull night's sleep. But the family started early and so inevitably did I. The other occupant also cleared out promptly and after a breakfast of dry bread and a mandarin I went back to bed for a kip. Was eventually woken by the cleaner, got up, went to Lidl had another sleep. Woke up and realised that my warm ski jacket had gone. No one has it and I'm rather missing it. I have waterproof stuff and warm stuff; the jacket was my main warm stuff. It had to be replaced ...

... up a few hills, past the nicely named Bad Gogging and Siffling acroos some open fields away from the river and up the nasty hills into Kelheim. Basically these just kept going up and up through the woods and with the state of my legs it was hard work. Kelheim is a small town dominated by a very prominent monument on a nearby hill celebrating the liberation from Napoleon. It also had a rather fine but obscure beer garden attached to a rather large ...

Its absolutely bucketed down for much of the morning and I was throughly grateful to be inside. So had a bit of debate on VC over the effects of paying for treatment and generally faffed around the net looking up German hostels. It looks a bit expensive as not many have kitchens and the explicit message is "hostels are for young people and families". However it is a big network and ...

And looking at the weather roll across the valleys. I went out twice; it was bitterly cold and raining. The puzzle of what to do has been resolved by further procrastination here. I'm staying til Sunday morning when the weather forecast is dry. Its been teeming and howling it down here although being so high up gives a strange sense of detachment too. I've also read wiki on the city so ...

Getting back to roads and such things, we came down from the Jura Mountains into rolling green hills full of wheat fields and tiny villages. What a relief to get out of cities though. We had met an Aussie couple who bought a GPS at home before they left. Wish we had, we seemed to drive around every large town at least twice before finding our way out. Besancon is an amazing place; it was a huge walled fort, built high up on a cliff on top of an ancient Roman city in ...

... to me that the horse meat sausages normally aren't stuffed or have a covering over them; possibly some corn starch or flour but that's about it; but the pork and beef sausages can either come stuffed with goat cheese or some other stuffing, as well as with a coating of herbs or black pepper, etc. He gave me several samples to try, and they were all good, except for the horse meat sausage sample which the taste to me was out there...didn't ...