Vines

We went for a 3.5 km walk up into the vineyards. And took the three hunting dogs (Beagle, Weimaraner and Porcelaine). The Porcelaine got lost before we even got to the Chardonnay and Pinot vines. Later, I heard him baying as if deer had been located - quite a trumpet for a hot-air balloon passing overhead.

Weimaraner seeks Porceleine

Topics of conversation ranged from horse bloodlines to varietal grapes. And led from hunting to winter game menus. Then we talked of Grand Maison reclamation, renovation, and rehabitation of a house complete with 'cave', swallows and bats (judging from the guano). This part of Gaul was popular with the Romans and more recently the Germans and then quickly thereafter the Americans occupied houses in this area. Grand houses built in previous centuries because it's a nice area to live east of Chalon-sur-Saone itself. A town once headquarters to Kodak but perhaps best remembered by photographers for Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who is credited with the invention around 1825. He's also credited for co-invention, with his brother, of the internal combustion engine, some twenty years earlier.

So that's 227 km done. My knee is still restricting me from doing much more than a few km per day.