Dijon to Giverney-Chambertin

So excited to find the trailhead!

We left the hotel on schedule and stopped to buy a map (!), picnic food and drink, pain espices and almost a stuffed owl.
We passed on the owl, though, and followed the Owl Trail one last time to the train station. We then headed out, hit a dead end, backtracked and headed out again. Chris' awesome navigational skills got us out of Dijon and near the trailhead. (We did get confirmation at one point from a helpful local.) We ended up asking some people on the street about the trailhead and located it.

The markings required a sharp eye, especially at first. We were both happy to have another person for input.

Eventually we reached the vineyard in Chenove, the "official" start of the walk, and found a parking lot with a stone wall that made a great lunch spot. Sausage, bread, cheese, avocado & wine never tasted so good!

Voila, a wine press

Right after lunch we came to the vineyards and were excited to see workers harvesting grapes. The tractors looked weird & Chris realized they are built to go above the vines. The third group of workers we encountered were as excited to see us as we were to see them & invited us to help! Sadly we didn't have time. We ended up getting invited to help several more times and one group invited us to share the half full bottle of wine in my backpack.

It was a good thing we declined the offers as we came to a spot where the directions said to "reascend slightly on the right on a straight line quite steep..." which meant climb straight up a steep, tall hill. ARGH. It seemed to go on forever!!! We were so glad when it flattened out - and so bummed to find we had covered only .3 km on the climb! We had over 2 km to go to the hotel.

There were no directions to the hotel, so we teamed up to work it out. The hotel is cute, one bed downstairs and one in a loft.

In the cellar

We toured a winery's cellar - it was pretty crazy and led to the saying "You think everything is all nice and normal, and then there's a badger in handcuffs" - and then looked for dinner. One place looked pretty pricey so we walked to another, which turned out to be closed for renovation. We walked back to the first place, were seated, and perused the menu. There was a 9,500 Euro bottle of wine!!! After sitting for a while we decided to leave and eat at the final restaurant in town, a pizza place. That was some damn tasty pizza! (Although it must be said that Chris was less enthusiastic about her tuna pizza...!)

So we figure we walked about 20 km or about 15 miles. My FitBit tracked 35,500 steps. I think this was my longest single day of walking ever.

Tomorrow we walk to Nuit-Saint-Georges, which looks to be about 15 km. Looking forward to it!