Hotel Du Sauvage Dijon

... been travelling another line and wasn't going to stop at where I needed to be. The hostel never bothered to tell me that the bus deviates from line 4 after 2000. This stop however according to the bus route map was only a street away from where I needed to be. Phew! A little sweat on the brow there.
Then I spent an hour looking for some place to eat after being directed by the receptionist that there was Pizza 'just across the street'. Being at an intersection; there were ...

... There must be nearly half a mile of free car parking on route to the centre. Violent thunderstorms and dramatic sheet lightning during the night.

22nd July 09 Gurgy 47.51'49.2"N 3.33'15.1"E

On route to Auxerre we spotted this aire. It is a lovely spot on the banks of the Yonne and we intend stopping a couple of days. We could easily have walked to a bar in the evening but the bike was unloaded ready for a trip to Auxerre tomorrow so ...

... There we met a lovely French/Hungarian family (Attila makes a point of talking to everyone he hears speaking Hungarian... except in Hungary, of course). The gentleman was from France and spoke English so he helped by clarifying what the extremely-fast-speaking tour guide was showing us.

After leaving the castle we finished our drive through the vinyards of Burgundy and headed back to Beaune for dinner.

... impressive
88 mph while the temperature guage registered - Gobi desert. Despite being ridden hard the
old girl took everything Kev could throw at her leaving him spent but happy.
Somewhere along the way a turning was missed and an extra hundred km's were added to the
journey. So we thought we knew better than Dashboard Doris and decided to go native and
head across country. Turns out that Doris is a smug cow but we did see some lovely ...

... which was lit up quite spookily. Beaune is a place we would definitely like to come back to and to explore properly.

We only had time to walk around a small part of the town, but it seemed quite sleepy: the bars were closing up at about 10.30pm. We trooped back to the campsite and had a late beer sat by the Bongo. Toppling into the van to sleep we were both shocked at how warm it still was - sleep seemed ...

... hôtel est situé à un endroit plein de gros commerces, qui ferait penser à n'importe quelle banlieue nord-américaine. A peine arrivé, je décide de mettre mes lunettes, après avoir passé l'avant-midi avec mes verres de contact à cause de la pluie... Malheur !! Elles ne sont plus dans mon sac, et j'ai beau fouiller, rien de rien. Le dernier moment où je me souviens de les avoir vues, c'est peu après être embarqué dans le bus 5 ; je vais à la réception ...

... Paige, and I got in our orange (actually I think I'd had my OSU shirt on all week), gathered in the kitchen, and listened to OSU play an incredible game against Kansas State! We had an absolute blast with our unique tailgate. I'm so glad she was able to visit and see my cute little ...

... beer store, and you'll probably spend around 2 euros for a bottle of beer. As for souvenirs, there are of course the very tacky Belgian beer candles, which actually would look cool in someone's dorm room or a Manekin **** statue if that's your thing, but tapestry and lace are very traditional crafts in Belgium and just off of Grande Place there are a lot of great stores that sell the stuff; the tapestries and the lace are expensive, but they fold up easy in your ...

... quite enjoying it. I climbed a bit of a hill and as I approached the top it was then conditions got serious. Now I was in a rather dangerous situation. Every couple of seconds a blinding flash of lightning followed fractions of a second later by what could only be described as an almighty crack of thunder. The combination of pea size rain drops and fierce wind stripped clusters of leaves from the trees and scattered them on the road. At ...