Destination Orange - Day 2

We were away about 0920 after breakfast in the hotel. This time we took the A26 toll motorway.

By 11am we needed a loo break near Chalons en Champagne. Plus it was coffee time! This time only coffee!

Next was off at Troyes to get petrol. The exit from the motorway was some ten miles to the north of the city and as is quite common, the N77 was full of slow moving trucks using the N roads to avoid paying the toll charges.

We pulled in the Géant hypermarket and filled the tank. The price was about 15 cents a litre less than the service area prices. The first fill up was after a tad over 300 miles and the car had averaged 37.34 to the gallon.

We bought lunch in the store, a bread item with chèvre cheese and melted cheese to keep it on and a couple of strawberry tarts.

Once we had meandered around to get back on the A26 we found it had finished and the A5 had taken over.

Dijon was still around 170kms away so e stopped in the next "aire" and found a picnic bench to have lunch.

The weather all day had been misty and soon it began to rain as we headed along the A5 and then the A31, now heading south. The spray at times was pretty heavy and visibility was greatly reduced.

TomTom brought us right to the door of the hotel. Or at least the entrance from the street, through a narrow arch into a courtyard with tables and chairs on the left. The hotel garage is barely wide enough to squeeze the CC through. I'm not sure how I'll get out tomorrow. I'm sure there must be some way to fold the door mirrors!

The Hostellerie le Sauvage has the rooms around the courtyard and there are vines and figs growing across the courtyard itself.

Once we had had a short rest (!) we set off into the city centre to look at the sights.

One site we didn't see was the large building with the gaudily tiled roof. There is a perfectly good reason. It's in Beaune not Dijon. Doh!! Jolly good that I didn't ask for it in the tourist office!!!!!

Pics to follow of the places we did see!

We did get to have a coffee and a crêpe with Nutella. 

And very nice it was.

We went back to the hotel for a while. My stomach was a bit funny and I needed a pill or two; codeine phosphate. Fix anything!!

Whilst I was downloading pictures from the camera onto the netbook it started to rain. Damn. Come to France and it rains!

Luckily we have two umbrellas in the car so we could brave the rain. However, by the time we came to leave it had stopped and we just went up the road to a nice little restaurant called Marco Polo. Pizza for me, okay but should have stuck to a margarita, and tagliatelle for Claire.

After all the fresh air we were ready for bed by 10pm!