Europe 2023 from Frankfurt : 2023-06-08 : Beaune - Corpus Christi (DE, CH, AT)

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Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Kms To Date Total Notes Actions
Cycle To Beaune $0.00 35.00 35.00
Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Camp Les Cent Vignes Beaune $30.00


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We went through Verdun yesterday. It is at the confluence of the Doubs and the Saône with the Petit Doubs tossed in for fun. It’s really beautiful but we didn’t get any photos of the view across the Doubs looking at Verdun.

This morning we backtracked and had a croissant and coffee in Verdun and then backtracked a little more to get some photos of the view.

Thankfully the lighting was just as stunning as yesterday afternoon.
A few days ago my iPhone mount broke and we haven’t been able to use the phone to follow GPS tracks.

For a couple of days we followed EV6, so we just followed the signage.

Today we went cross-country - no signed cycle route to be had, so I used my iPhone on its holster around my neck to try and follow a route. It was… less than ideal.

There have been no bike stores so far- either none to be found, or none open. Bike stores are all closed on Mondays in France (which is also common elsewhere), and then we were just in small towns that didn’t have bike stores.

The countryside was WONDERFUL - we weren’t sure what to expect going cross-country, but it was just really great.

I had searched for bike stores in Beaune, and made us a dramatically shorter route to Beaune to give me time to hit the bike stores and try to get a new phone mount. The first store was a phantom but we wasted about a half hour looking for it.

We then went into the Centre Ville of Beaune in search of lunch, which we found. It’s a beautiful town full of wine bars (we are in Burgundy, after all).

I stopped in at the tourist office and asked about a Magasin du Velo (bike store). The young man directed me to a rental shop, Active Tours/Bourgogne Vélo Evasion. I was skeptical and asked him to confirm it was a store. He said yes, and it was the only one in town. I was still skeptical. Googling it seemed to confirm it was a rental place, not a store.

Anyway, after lunch, we made our way over to a store that Laura had found on Google. It was not far from the rental place anyway. They did exist, but they did not sell any phone mounting things.

In desperation, we went over to the rental place, which was clearly a rental place. I asked for a phone mount thingy. My French was so bad that the lady just said she didn’t understand what I was asking for. With a bit of charades, she understood, and she showed me a slightly used phone mount and said she could sell it to me for €10. I’ve seen them in stores (before mine broke, obviously) for €40. SOLD!!! We’re back in the cycle.travel track following business.
We had a brief visit to Beaune, enroute to Dijon.


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