Ibis Dijon Centre Clemenceau - Open 10 Apr 07

... 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 ...

... bike (500kg ?) on the back of a camper leaving the site. A quick double-take showed the rack (looking just like ours) had a small road wheel centrally placed. I am dubious and need an engineer, chris, to tell me that this is a sensible idea. If so, we may be swapping the Innova for the Bonneville!.
More torrential rain, thunder and spectacular sheet lightning during the night.

26th July 09, Poinchy, Chablis 47.49'21"N 3.46'32"E
Our first ...

... kitchen and pharmacy, all run by nuns.

After touring the hospice, we did a little shopping (OK, I did a little shopping and Attila did a little waiting). In trying to pay for my purchase, I discovered a compatibilty probelm with the chip in my Visa. Apparently France hasbeen using the chip for quite some time and some of the readers are not compatible with our new chips in North America. Anyway, it ...

... 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 ...

... courses of small food on big plates. The food was good and i finally got some proper meat. Laugh it up Rob. I really prefer a good steak. I am going to eat falafel and chummous (which I rarely eat in Israel) like there is not tomorrow when I get back The organizer and his wife were lovely and a pleasure to speak with during dinner. Best part about them is that they paid for it. Because once again I had slightly too much alcohol, we ...

... so we traveled to the town of Trier. We walked to the hostel located in the center of town and were able to get a last minute room. Since it was sunday everyone was out on the streets. There was a large event going on in the main market place that included fresh fruit stands, wine tasting bar, food, and little carnival rides for kids. It was so fun to walk around the main market place with the sunday event going on. We tasted wine of the ...

... and a lot slower so it was worthwhile keeping a jump on her. Also she's full of Americans and one already has his eyes on Jenny. So BB has been strutting about marking his territory. The days are mostly taken up with bike rides along the canal and through the many villages we pass. At each loch it is possible to hop back on board to have a drink and/or toilette stop then hop off again if you want. Simply the most enjoyable day you could ...

... by scammers and pickpockets but avoided any trouble. Be on guard if anyone comes up to you and asks if you speak English. Even the Hotel Concierge warned us. To say the French were well groomed was an understatement, around inner-city Paris both Men & Women look like they're on their way to a fashion shoot. There was no risk of us being mistaken for Parisians. After 2 days in Paris we headed off by train to Strasbourg (where I discovered ...

... without an air. The French king, Jean II simply handed the duchy to one of his younger sons and thus started a new line of illustrious Dukes. Many of the buildings of interest date from this period and I went to see 'The Dukes palace', where court was held. My visit coincided with a the 'Festival of the Dukes', where all things medieval were on display such as music, art, craftsmanship, costume, agriculture, food, talks and banquets (by ...