Where: Bourgogne, France
When: 22 – 25 April 2011
Who: me, Rebekka
Type: Bicycle tour
How long: 4 Days
We started by car from Bern, tandem-style with the tandem: me driving, Rebekka in the backseat behind me, and the tandem on the right, from windshield to trunk.
First night in a nice B&B in Nuits-St-George, where we left the car. The next morning we started by tandem and the first stop was Beaume, while in the afternoon we kept going west and visited the Chateau de Sully. We spent the first night in Saulieu at the hotel La Poste, where the escargot dinner did leave some consequences….
The next day we went to the UNESCO world heritage site Vezelay, before starting heading north-est to start our way back. The only hours of bad weather caught us while nearby Noyers. We stopped at a beautiful castle turned into a Bad & Breakfast, Château d’Archambault, where the owner, Madame Sylvie Bouisset, was an extremely nice lady with a passion for Marilyn Monroe. They didn’t have any room available, and calling around they didn’t find any also at nearby hotels. Feeling bad leaving two young souls under the rain on a yellow tandem, Madame Bouisset offered us one of her private rooms, which was anyway perfect, and we were saved.
The next days we went to visit another stunning UNESCO site, the Abbey of Fontenay. From there we kept rolling through the picture perfect countryside of Burgundy, between yellow colza fields, passing by Semur-en-Auxois, to stop for the night in Flavigny, which is the village where most of the Chocolat film was shot. 3 B&B in the village, all of them full, and again a very nice lady started calling basically every house in the village to see if anyone could offer us a bad. As usual with the ones who take risks, luck was on our side and a lady hosted us in one of her rooms in a beautiful old house filled with all sorts of objects in the middle of the village.
The last day we cycled through some medieval villages, among which also Cheateauneuf, to make it back to Nuit-Saint-George where we loaded the tandem and started our way back to Switzerland.
