Today we drove from our first stopping place to our second, stopping at the chateau of Fontainebleau on the way. Although there was lots of over the top decorating, there was still a great deal of the medieval touch to this building. If you happen to be a Napoleonic fan there is plenty of that as well including the bee embroidered throne and many items of clothing. I always knew Napoleon was short but he was also small with very narrow small feet. In modern women sizes I would guess a 5 1/2 AAA. There are some rooms left in the style of Marie Antoinette as well. Couldn't help but think that all the pomp and circumstance never did her any good and at the end she also lost her head.
Now we are in Gilly, in the converted home of a Cistercian abbot. The countryside down from Fontainebleau was stunningly beautiful and aggressively rural. Fields of sunflowers, all dried and brown now, emerging fields of what looked like sugar beets, lots of freshly plowed fields, and all the Charolais cattle that the area is home to. Being from south Texas I know the Charolais cattle fairly well. This is also Burgundy so home to many vineyards but we have yet to see a single vine. The hotel offers vineyard tours so perhaps we will do that. The hotel restaurant is supposed to be excellent so I may bring home new meal ideas.
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