More on Dijon ... arrived by train mid-day. Short walk to the hotel from the train station ... even better. Great choice!!! Spent some time looking around the old city ... by now familiar narrow medieval streets and old buildings ... lots of churches. Bastille Day, so we joined many thousands around the lake to see the light and sound spectacular ...huge spotlighs lighting the water and the cliffs, fireworks and accompanied by the Orchestra de Bourgogne. A great spectacle ... Happy Birthday little Sophie!! But what a nightmare trying to get away from the lake with huge crowd trying to go both directions across a bridge.
We managed to take in a few museums, a art gallery (great ideas for kids' art too) ... check out the colours on bark Sophie.... you'd love them, the Botannical Gardens, the canal and local boats, and meals and local ales. Lex really wanted to souvenir the beer glass!
Plants in the Botannical Gardens were something else. Floweres or vegetables??? Who knows ... they were spectacularly colourful!!
Frankfurt ... in a nutshell ('cos we're too stuffed to explore much). Our room looks out over the canal ... great view, pity we have such a small window. We also appear to be above a 'red light' district. Who knows, there might be a reason for the small window afterall! Look for the update on that one. Hotel appears to have wifi ... but not available today, unfortunately. We leave Frankfurt around midnight tomorrow night, so I guess there won't be too much exploring with our load.
I felt frustrated with my poor French ... but it's not until faced with a really unknown language (as I am with German) that I realise how much French I did understand. I can't interpret any of the signs, or conversations ... and all TV stations are in German. I long to understand what I am watching!!
Lex did some geocaching and also found a fantastic beer garden at the end of the river walk ... great view of the river and the city skyline. We went back for a few drinks ... would have enjoyed the sunset (around 10pm) but spolit by clouds. Very warm day ... summer at last.
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