Formule 1 Besancon Valentin - Espace Valentin Besançon

Bonjour!<br><br>We are up and running in France and Switzerland. The French countryside is BEAUTIFUL! Buffard, France is now our home base. You will hard pressed to find it on a map&#8230;.it is close to Besancon. So far in the countryside we have encountered 9 wild boar, 3 deer, 1 hedgehog, 1 mountain goat, Belgian horses, and too many milk cows ...

... 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!!

... from invaders. We expected history about how it was built and the different parts and maybe some rooms furnished like they would have been in the 1600s. We didn't see any rooms furnished like they would have been, but we did get information about the citadel and how it was built and used. But that was mainly just from the audio tour and was only a little bit of what we saw. First off, we spent quite a bit of time in the World War II museum. I ...

... s someone else doing it too. The scenery varies between narrow gorge and wider embankments leading to dams every few miles. There are castles and churches everywhere. Its very pretty but after the first twenty or so. I needed to make a bit more progress, my initial target came up about 12.00. So we had lunch in a pretty glade by the river and she turned off to geocache and I pushed on. It was an even narrower gorge and quite pretty. I ...

I got back last night at about 10 and discovered that there were two unfamiliar people trying to get in the hostel. they were a large middle aged man and a thin slightly older woman. All the posessions they were carrying seemed to be contained in two carrier bags. Being a bit uneasy I went back down the stairs leaving them to negociate access with the hotels owners. So I went for a walk round the block and went back to the room. It turned out that the man, his wife and two young ...

... Lots of people out for the day. There was also a rather neat powerless ferry that used the current to pull itself across while attached to a dolly on a wire suspended across the river. There were now people sunbathing. Regensberg is as fine as I remembered it; a wonderful combination of river parks and history. I was looking for an independant hostel and have found it. Its very quiet but there's only a micrwave to cook with and I have very lttle ...

... rammed. The next band was a bit better but the sound didn't do them justice. It seemed to lose most of their attempts to be different. Beer was e2.50 per half; not unreasonable inn the circumstances. At this point i felt like a badly dressed middle aged man in a bar full of people speaking a different language. If the music had been better it could have rocked. When you've seen a fair number of bands live at festivals your standards change. The scale of the venue was such that a ...

I'm sure if I liked: parties, wine, parties, pools or dancing this would have been an A+ place to stay. But I don't, so y&#8217;know, nice view of vineyards and things. The house is like a million years old, and it&#8217;s entirely possible that mum stayed here on her contiki. They have power sockets under the light switches, as they do through most of Europe (and believe me, Europe, I have a rant all saved up about that) but these ones had the extra special ...

... that surprised to see it though, because after all it was a Saturday, and normally the weekends are market days. But the furthur that I walked through centre ville it became apparent to me that this was more than just a simple, Saturday flea day market. I began to realize that this flea market covered the streets of entire centre ville: rows and rows of tables with locals selling everything from clothes to art to local cheeses and sausages to ...

... at the front desk recommended that I go see the Museum of Time, the Musee des Beaux Arts, and the Citadelle. Since I had a limited amount of time I basically decided that I would try to see as much of these monuments as possible, so I left the tourist office and walked across the bridge. I used my map to try to look for the Museum of Time, which instead of finding it I got lost and pretty much explored what of centre ville that I ...