Burgundy

A quick three day trip to the Burgundy wine region (3 hours from Paris) before school starts September 2nd.  JD found a great chateau to stay in outside of Beaune, which is right in the middle of the two wine regions - the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits.

Alex loved the rental Fiat 500L, the trampoline at the chateau, and the escargots.  Vincent didn't like his uncomfortable French car seat (but put up with it anyway).  Vincent did enjoy running around the chateau and throwing rocks in the fountain.  Vincent also perfected his skill of falling asleep on the table after eating on this trip.

fyi - setting on camera allows for 4 "art shots" that is what you will notice on some of the photos that are duplicates.

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Drive down to Beaune, stopping in Saulieu for lunch.  We had to stop playing the "My Cows" game there were so many cows.  Arriving Chateau de Challenges.   Dinner at local restaurant.

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Breakfast delivered to our separate "round house" hotel room in a picnic basket through a secret door in the closest!  A visit to Chateau de Savigny-lès-Beaune, the most unique museum with a massive historical race car, fighter plane, motorcycle, helicopter, fire engine, wine harvesting machine collection you have ever seen, laid out among the countryside and vineyards.  Who doesn't enjoy a MIG fighter jet, a Sikorsky,  and a chateau?  The kids loved it.  It was really cool. Then off to a nice sushi lunch and naps.  Dinner in a wine cave in Beaune.  So good.  When can we go back?

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Funny pictures of Alex and Vincent in the hotel bed sleeping.  A quick drive through some vineyards and small towns, then a picnic before we left Beaune to head home to Paris.  A quick stop at IKEA Evry for some lamps (no pictures) but the cheap price was worth the stop!

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JD's pictures of the airplane-race car-motorcycle-chateau museum

trampoline and Aloxe-Corton (small town in Burgundy with cool chateau)

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