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We stayed until Monday morning at Seurre, giving us a full day of rest but on the Sunday morning we walked to the apple fête of course and where there were indeed a lot of apples.
The above is just a small sample, there must have been around a hundred different varieties on display.
And there were cooked apples.
And a demonstration of apple pressing which started with the apples being put through a garden shredder.
Once the apples were shredded they were then put through a second time to cut them into even smaller pieces which were then spread on cloth in the press.
The cloth was then folded over to cover the apple pulp, a slatted wooden board placed on top and then another layer added and so on.
Squeeze until no more juice comes out.
But it wasn't all apples, there was the usual craft fair stuff plus various food stalls. We bought some goats' cheese which we ate crumbled over a salad with crusty bread - yummy.
From Seurre we followed the Saône river downstream for a while on minor roads until we reached Chalon Sur Saône where we drove south for about 60 km on the motorway to just outside Mâcon and the completely free aire at Vinzelles, CC13706.
The aire, which is mixed parking, is pretty new. It doesn't have dedicated spaces for MHs but no one seems to mind where you park. The services are completely free although it only has one tap for water which of course means it gets used for cassette flushing.
We walked around the village on minor roads and explored the centre. It is a small village surrounded by vineyards.
The war memorial had an interesting entry.
The "Vve" in the name is the abbreviation for veuve, French for widow. Fusillee is shot.
The First World War entries were also interesting.
Note the bottom line with three sharing the same surname. In such a small place they were probably related.
The map below shows where Vinzelles is in relation to the rest of France.
Vinzelles is the blue blob just above Lyon and today we drove to 40km north west of Lyon to another free aire at Les Sauvages, CC9769.
This area of France seems to be a geocache desert, there were none near Vinzelles and only one here, about 500m away near of all things an observatory and a model aircraft flying area.
The strip of tarmac beyond the white fence with a dotted line running down it isn't a road, it is the runway for the model aircraft club.
We walked for about an hour finishing up by coming back through the village, which looked fairly prosperous, probably because we are not far from Lyon.
As in Vinzelles we sought out the memorial which recorded over 40 names from WW1 but only two from WW2.
The 1870-1871 names must be from the Franco-Prussian war.
Outside the village we came across this sign suggesting this is a dark skies area - or they are saving electricity.
The sky is clear at the moment so I will peek outside once it gets dark.
The above is just a small sample, there must have been around a hundred different varieties on display.
And there were cooked apples.
And a demonstration of apple pressing which started with the apples being put through a garden shredder.
Once the apples were shredded they were then put through a second time to cut them into even smaller pieces which were then spread on cloth in the press.
The cloth was then folded over to cover the apple pulp, a slatted wooden board placed on top and then another layer added and so on.
Squeeze until no more juice comes out.
But it wasn't all apples, there was the usual craft fair stuff plus various food stalls. We bought some goats' cheese which we ate crumbled over a salad with crusty bread - yummy.
From Seurre we followed the Saône river downstream for a while on minor roads until we reached Chalon Sur Saône where we drove south for about 60 km on the motorway to just outside Mâcon and the completely free aire at Vinzelles, CC13706.
The aire, which is mixed parking, is pretty new. It doesn't have dedicated spaces for MHs but no one seems to mind where you park. The services are completely free although it only has one tap for water which of course means it gets used for cassette flushing.
We walked around the village on minor roads and explored the centre. It is a small village surrounded by vineyards.
The war memorial had an interesting entry.
The "Vve" in the name is the abbreviation for veuve, French for widow. Fusillee is shot.
The First World War entries were also interesting.
Note the bottom line with three sharing the same surname. In such a small place they were probably related.
The map below shows where Vinzelles is in relation to the rest of France.
Vinzelles is the blue blob just above Lyon and today we drove to 40km north west of Lyon to another free aire at Les Sauvages, CC9769.
This area of France seems to be a geocache desert, there were none near Vinzelles and only one here, about 500m away near of all things an observatory and a model aircraft flying area.
The strip of tarmac beyond the white fence with a dotted line running down it isn't a road, it is the runway for the model aircraft club.
We walked for about an hour finishing up by coming back through the village, which looked fairly prosperous, probably because we are not far from Lyon.
As in Vinzelles we sought out the memorial which recorded over 40 names from WW1 but only two from WW2.
The 1870-1871 names must be from the Franco-Prussian war.
Outside the village we came across this sign suggesting this is a dark skies area - or they are saving electricity.
The sky is clear at the moment so I will peek outside once it gets dark.
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