Beaujoulais

Sorry about the poor quality, but our windscreen is terribly dirty...

Sunday, July 14

Today being France’s National Day (The storming of the Bastille, July 14 in 1789, so actually 230 years ago), most places were closed. But that didn’t stop us from sightseeing by car. We went to Beaujoulais, to the village of Chiroubles, where we bought some really nice wines 20 years ago. We did find the Domaine, Domaine Cheysson, and their wines were just as nice today. Madame la proprietaire didn’t speak any more English than last time, but we managed to understand at least a little bit of what she said. Bought another box of six, plus the usual two for the road. Who are we kidding? By now we have bought quite a few bottles for the road!

Our problem is, we only have so much weight to use – we actually have more space (not by much, but still) than weight, and there are so many nice wines out there. Another problem is, that we will need a new (bigger) wine storage/fridge when we get home, but that’s a minor problem. The weight is much more pressing. We actually keep a very good eye on every bottle we buy. One bottle weighs 1.3 kilos (we have actually asked several domaines to be on the safe side). We had 90 kilos to spare when we left home (full diesel tank, half full water tank, full fridge. So we constantly think about what we use, what we throw away, and what we buy.

We did a lot of driving today, saw many nice places through the car window, hillside up, hillside down, took some photographs, but apart from the stop at Domaine Cheysson that was about it. A lovely day, if you ask us!

It started raining the minute we had parked again at our campsite. We'd left chairs and table out over the day, so quickly packed everything in the RV. Dinner indoors tonight!