Blogs from Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy, France, Europe

When we left Suerre we only had a short day of 30 miles, made even shorter as we had a current to help move us along to our destination, Chalon-sur-Saone. This area is a beautiful one as we passed numerous fields of crops and attractive residential homes. This is the first that we are seeing commercial barges again as we saw some filling up at some of the sand piles that are located in this section of the river. When we arrived at the marina in Chalon-sur-Saone it appeared to be quite full as they had us go to their waiting pontoon, but fortunately only about 20 minutes later they found us a permanent location. As we were coming into town we saw numerous tents all around in any “open area” so we figured there must ... read more

An early start Saturday morning - 7:30am. Why? We were on our way to a vide-grenier (garage sale) at Gergy before having lunch at Chalon-sur-Saône. Neville drove a scenic route, which was beautiful, sojourning through quaint villages. Look, Madame! A brocante! Where? Stop! What a treat we were in for as Neville pulled to a stop opposite a church (complete with cemetery) at the village of Corberone. A hand written sign at the gate showed us the way in…we shall let the photos tell the story! Madame Smith came away happily with a mustard pot and a bigger pot (useful for something!) Neville found some glasses, while Mabel and Jan just marveled at the collections. But Neville, we still need to go to Gergy. A further drive along narrow roads, through more quaint villages, past wheat ... read more

The mooring at Fragnes was lovely – electricity, showers, water and a really friendly and helpful young woman in the office. The wi-fi was really unreliable, but we set up camp for a few days so we could do some jobs and celebrate Mike's 30th. The following day was Mike's 30th and I woke early to make him breakfast in bed, champagne and present him with his card and present. I'd managed to lose him for a while the previous day whilst I bought him something and had made his card ages before on a sunny day on the river – it was a map of france with our route so far and some of the highlights of the trip. I was very pleased with it and so was Mike … I'd even drawn on the ... read more