Day 9 - Beaune Rest Day

Saturday, September 12

Beaune (0 km)

After 6 days of riding we have done 425 miles. It seems tough because everything is so new to us. We get lost a lot, and have to stop to look at signs. There is a silver lining though; we see many sights we wouldn’t if we rode through rapidly. All in all, it's a lot of fun. Susan has ridden almost all of it with Jim and me.

Beaune is a typical tour rest day for us. First, we had to go to the bicycle shop to get a spoke changed for Jim S. He broke a spoke about 55 Km out of Beaune. We found a good mechanic, but it took a good hour and a half. Then we had to find a place to do laundry, and that took until 1 pm. FINALLY, we got to rest and look around!

Hotel Dieu Hospital

The Hotel Dieu truly is amazing. It was a hospital built in the 1500's for the poor to die in. It was built at a time of epidemics, probably the Plague.

Hotel Dieu inside. Very luxurious for it's time.

The vintner’s headquarters are really luxurious (with a lot of nice cars around them), and the streets crowd with tourists. The signs are in French and English.

I also found the WWI and WWII memorials. Usually, the major part of the monument commemorates WWI, and the lower part commemorates WWII.

We had another great dinner - I don’t know how many more I can take! I had Mirabelle for desert, although Susan is the most adventurous in food. We have seen some really strange things, which I'll discuss in an upcoming post.