It’s all going south to Lons le Saunier
In which Sid and Doris ride from Beaune on the Tacot line, cross the Saone to join the Paris, Lyon and Mediterrane line to stay at Lons.
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In which Sid and Doris ride from Beaune on the Tacot line, cross the Saone to join the Paris, Lyon and Mediterrane line to stay at Lons.
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Today’s musings are on spires and tyres.
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In which Sid and Doris drop down from Chateau-Chinon (Ville) and climb back up to come into Beaune through the Mersault and Pommard vineyards to stay at L’Imprimerie, that used to print clever labels for the finest wines (so that they could not be counterfeited).
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In which Doris thinks about the French Voie Vertes system.
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In which Sid and Doris leave the Loire and visit a memorial to the French forces in fighting in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria from 1952 to 1962.
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Because where’s the point in cycling through countryside if you don’t look at its permanent inhabitants.
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In which… yes, more cathedrals from Doris.
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In which Sid and Doris see at Bannay a church resulting from the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion as well as Nevers Cathedral, not quite repaired these 80 years.
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In which Sid and Doris see their first (close-up) Loire chateau and cross the river on the justly famous Pont Canal de Briare to stop at a workers’ Logis at Belleville.
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As Sid pedals energetically up the hills, Doris glides serenely upwards, assisted by a discreetly-humming electric bike. Which gives more time for thinking…
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