Le Relais De La Vallee Hotel Hyevre-Paroisse 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 ...

Finally got to a chateau today, but not the sort I had anticipated. I had been expecting something more grand with lots of fine furnishings, gillt etc.. and while this chateau was grand it was a bit more medieval. It had been an important line of defense in the many wars that have featured in France's history. After the Revolution the revolutionaries ordered it and many chateaux to be destroyed because of what they represented, so this magnificent ...

... gotten there around 10 and left around 6. We had not expected to spend all day long there. We took the bus back to our car and drove off to find our hotel. We knew how to get to the hotel from the highway we'd taken into the city, but we didn't know where the highway was. So, we expected a long drive trying to find the hotel. However, we got really lucky and made a couple of random turns that took us right to the hotel. It took us less than 10 ...

... shrug. The other side does avoid major roads and is a vast improvement. To cap the slowness issue I'm then caught by the swiss girl who also stayed at Grein. She made the same choices re the side to ride on; as she put it "you never go back". As our riding paces are fairly compatible and we deal with path issues amicably its nice to have someone to ride with. Also my pace picks up a bit and riding into the wind is a bit easier when ...

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 ...

... Overall its quite similar although the beer garden now concentrates on expensive food. The monument is as it was. I also spent £2 on a fab ice cream here reasoning that I needed the sugar and fat. It was lush. Kelheim also had a net cafe but I didn't really have time. >From here to Regensberg was bank holiday city with lots of people out fishing. As we got close to Regensberg the number of cyclists increased to dominate any roads we were routed ...

... ride in the rain? Then there was some unwise advertising; not sure how well the picture will come out. Made me smile, the house is lived in too. Following the major road did locate one but it wasn't hyper. More faffing in the rain including going back down the hill and then having to climb up past the hostel again; eventually a Lidl was revealed. Worth a try for the specials; they had mens trainers and perfect sandals for children. Following the same road I found a specialist shoe shop ...

... up on the hillsides. Yet the towpath stayed magically flat. At one point the canal went through a short tunnel and the towpath climbed over the top. The other curiosity is that the river is so twisty that the actual town always seems to be round the next bend. Poor signage on the way into town was confusing; at one point there was a canal tunnel converted to a cycle tunnel which was a shortcut to another part of town as the place is rammed in the valley. But Besanson ...

... Sete, ou nous avons mangé des huitres et des moules pas cuites... des escargots aussi... un peu salé.... fred a mangé une grosse pieuvre.. Ensuite, Nice!!! pas pire pas pire!!! encore de l'eau azur debile!!! mais une auberge de jeunesse pas tres cool... et une dame qui ronfle plus fort que mon pere gggrrrrr Que dire de Monaco..... le port avec des bateaux qui valent des millions... c'est tellement riche... et la ...

... and exploring more of the markets, which was unavoidable today because of the festival. Eventually, I came across this other small park that had like fair rides as well as some crepe/waffle stands, but one of the buildings along this square happened to be the Musuem of Time. The Musuem of Time is held in what used to be a 15th century mansion but is now today, (duh) a musuem. The musuem discusses the history of clock and watch making not only in ...