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We had planned on going to Troyes until we realised the address given in CamperContacts isn't an aire, it's a site. We check its website and find 2 nights will be over €50 so we decide to aim for Auxerre instead, where there is a riverside aire. Meantime there are three Passions near Chablis all producing the namesake wine and since we have some salmon in the intermittent fridge we decide to spend a night there giving us a shorter drive the following morning.
We take a scenic route up through forests and across plains of farmland with herds of charolais cattle and fields of cut and baled hay to feed them. It is a really pretty ride and there is hardly a car to be seen even through the sleepy little villages, but there are plenty of tractors trundling across dry fields with bown dust clouds behind them.
Chatillon sur Seine is a busy place though. We stop in its central carpark for lunch and the comings and goings seem chaotic, but once we leave the town again serenity returns. The roads after Chalon-s-S are Roman-straight rising and falling over hidden dips.
Nearing Chablis the land turns to vines again. How many 'wine-berries' actually grow in France each year?
We pass by Chablis and find the Passion at Poinchy. It's nicely laid out with gravel pitches for MoHo's, each with a named sign; Grenouille, Bougros , Blanchot and Valmuir. We park in Vaudesir and Ali goes to find someone but there's no-one about.
The temperature is now 33C so we flake out and try to stay cool waiting for the owners to arrive, but by 19:00 the only other vehicle is a German MoHo. We're too settled to bother trying the other Passions [one closed at 17:00 anyway] so that scuppered our plans; the fridge is iffy again so we can't chill any of our own white wine, the salmon needs cooking and there is no chance of a bottle of local.
Sometimes Passions are fablous, but today's is Chablis lacking.
And salmon is just fine with cider.
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