Planned for another early start …7am… down to the underground carpark to work out how to pay and get out before the traffic. Managed the paying part …. only to find out the doors were locked and not due to open until 8am …. another hour!!!! Settled in for a wait …time to catch up on the diary. Suddenly the doors opened (early) and we shot out of there…. unfortunately, not by the exit we had planned so once again we were doing loops through the narrow streets of another medieval city!! Another 15 minutes later annd we were finally on the road again.
Target for the day was to get close to Beaune (where we will be staying from Sunday for 6 days) ... or better still Atun, which will be another race finish, preferably if we can ... by driving along some sections of the road to be used for the race .... and all this means ... getting off the highways onto the back roads. Villers Gettorets was to be a race start ... so we headed off the highway in that direction. Several 'road deviations' later and we were still no closer to Villers .... in fact every sign we saw said it was 17km away. Seemed like we were attached to a 17km rope ... circling Villers Gotterets ... unable to break free....
We did hawever finally make it to somewhere else ... lots of beautiful, gentle sloping farm land with wildflowers growing all along the roadsides.
One of our 'alternative' turns took us to a beautiful small village called Longpont, where we came across some amazing ruins and beautiful old buildings.
Mid afternoon, we started looking for a bed for the night (knowing that if all else failed we had sleeping bags and a car to sleep in). Sailieu is a beautiful old town.... missed the markets though ... but no room at the inn(s)... so we moved on. We did manage to find a room at a hotel in a very small village called Chissey on Morvan. Very old place, and I think we were the only people in the place. More of an inn than a hotel ... good rooms, great country view, good food. Another great spot.
Target for the day was to get close to Beaune (where we will be staying from Sunday for 6 days) ... or better still Atun, which will be another race finish, preferably if we can ... by driving along some sections of the road to be used for the race .... and all this means ... getting off the highways onto the back roads. Villers Gettorets was to be a race start ... so we headed off the highway in that direction. Several 'road deviations' later and we were still no closer to Villers .... in fact every sign we saw said it was 17km away. Seemed like we were attached to a 17km rope ... circling Villers Gotterets ... unable to break free....
We did hawever finally make it to somewhere else ... lots of beautiful, gentle sloping farm land with wildflowers growing all along the roadsides.
One of our 'alternative' turns took us to a beautiful small village called Longpont, where we came across some amazing ruins and beautiful old buildings.
Mid afternoon, we started looking for a bed for the night (knowing that if all else failed we had sleeping bags and a car to sleep in). Sailieu is a beautiful old town.... missed the markets though ... but no room at the inn(s)... so we moved on. We did manage to find a room at a hotel in a very small village called Chissey on Morvan. Very old place, and I think we were the only people in the place. More of an inn than a hotel ... good rooms, great country view, good food. Another great spot.
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