Gigny Sur Saone

We travelled south to Gigny Sur Saone for our three night stay at Chateau de L’Eperviere, a superb campsite set in the grounds of a Chateau (obviously), and it has carp fishing lakes and swimming pools and beautiful Sunshine.  It has also had a great deal of rain prior to our arrival and 80% of the campsite is still under water as you can see from the photo below showing the Euro camp tents.

Our pitch is probably the largest pitch that we have ever had, it is sort of set in its own little garden with hedges on all sides with an entry way in.  The site is a little off the beaten track and it takes some finding, thank goodness for our Satnav.

You have to travel along one track roads with fields of Rape Seed on both sides to get to the little village of Gigny Sur Saone but this is an ideal location to visit the surround villages, like Louhans.

Our pitch

 

Bailey enjoying his afternoon nap

 Euro camp

 

 

Louhans

 

Louhans, where a huge weekly market is held on a Monday, which we really did enjoy, it has lots of livestock, chickens, ducks, rabbits and goats to name a few. It also has many cheese and olive stands plus vegetable and clothing stands too.  The cheese and vegetable are made and grown locally and sold by the farmers themselves, the aroma from the cheese stands are amazing and definitely mouth watering.

After Louhans we went to Beaune a historic town with a vast number of Wine Cellars and old architecture, this accompanied by outdoor cafes is a very pleasant way to pass a few hours.

 Louhans market

 Louhans market goat transport

 

Beaune

Cuisery

Today are last day here, we went to Cuisery to another market, but on a much smaller scale, the village appears to be a village of book shops, selling old and very odd books, it also has yet another lovely church and some very distinguished houses, as the one in the photo here.

We then went on to Macon, a rather newer city on the Saone river, pleasant but lacking in history, a pleasant coffee was had by the river but the campsite beckoned us  back to spend the afternoon bathed in hot sunshine, relaxing before we start on our journey tomorrow to Switzerland.

 Macon

 Journey to campsite

PS Didn't go to Dijon in the end, too many other places to see and have been to Dijon twice before. It is absolutely lovely though, well worth a visit.