Today was the start of our road trip. We fuelled ourselves with the traditional French yummies for breakfast; Pain au Chocolat, Croissants, Coffee and then Ruth and I went to get some cheese from a Fromagerie that sold a million different cheeses.
The Fromagerie was manned by a helpful, cute portly man with a curly moustache. He had all my favourite cheeses; Brie, Comte, Camembert, Emmenthal..., which he kindly sliced and packed in a cooler bag for us to take with us for our picnic. All for 26 euros. Wow I love being in France!
We then made our way to Hertz to get our hire car, which for some reason we christened Robert or Bob for short. As designated driver I was a little nervous about driving a manual car whilst sitting and driving on the wrong side. But it wasn't too bad. Apart from stalling a couple of times at toll booths, the trip was relatively smooth with the occasional beeping from Tom Tom (A.K.A Tomas) as according to Ruth I had lead foot syndrome; the need for speed.
During the road trip to Beaune, we made a few pitt stops:
1) Obernai to see some picturesque scenery; by luck we were able to find this amazing view spot
2) Motorway service station, where we had our picnic lunch of bread and cheeses that were slowly stinking out the car. But as they say, "the smellier the better!"
3) Wine tasting at Patrice Rion, where a cute wine maker, Maxim, gave us some insight into the world of wine making and wine tasting. Mer gave us an insight in shameless flirting with a blushing Maxim.
During the road trip to Beaune, we made a few pitt stops:
1) Obernai to see some picturesque scenery; by luck we were able to find this amazing view spot
2) Motorway service station, where we had our picnic lunch of bread and cheeses that were slowly stinking out the car. But as they say, "the smellier the better!"
3) Wine tasting at Patrice Rion, where a cute wine maker, Maxim, gave us some insight into the world of wine making and wine tasting. Mer gave us an insight in shameless flirting with a blushing Maxim.
We arrived at our hotel Le Cep about dusk. Our hotel was in the middle of Beaune and our room was lovely. Gold, guilded and spacious. A nice base for us in Beaune and for us to live luxuriously for a couple of days.
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