Paris to Nice Cruise Beaune October 2009

     On Friday we boarded our bus in Paris and drove south through Burgundy.  Trees on the side of the freeway were adorned in fall colors.  In the city of Beaune our group toured the Hotel Dieu, a hospital museum depicting original sick beds and accouterments from the 15th century.  Then, Kathy and I ate Plat du Jours (daily specials) at Dame Tartine, a 40 person restaurant.
     As we walked back to the bus through an old part of the walled town, we checked out an ancient wine press and noted some 15th century carvings of wolves outside a home before driving on a winding road through wine country to our river ship docked at Macon on the Saone River.