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Day 1 Calais to Dijon - Mon 18th Sept
Actual target is Annecy but from Calais it is approx 8 hours, so an Airbnb near Dijon takes out 5 hours, and after a rather semi heavy weekend in that London, mainly with my old pal Gaston, but stayed at Katie’s place in Clapham / Brixton - a good weekend all round, except for a rather bad faint in the early hours of the Sunday…sudden blood pressure loss, I passed out, and came to, with blood all over the place…needing help, so awoke Katie and BF, Ben, who I’d only just met, tidied up the bathroom whilst Katie tidied me up and nursed me! Lovely intro to Katie’s old man! 🙄😂
Anyway, surprisingly feeling better hours later, except the gash on my forehead (Katie was calling me Harry Potter!) and by the Monday morning drove to the Chunnel, as if nothing had happened.
After Calais, and over 4 hours, I arrived at my AirBnB somewhere near Dijon (St Maurice sur Vingeanne), to be met by an elderly Frenchman, Guy, and his dog, Leo, in a very old rustic 18th century chateau! And very pleasant Guy was too, alarmed I had no food, he made me a meal and gave me a bottle of beer. Guy had worked all over, including the Middle East, but also Shropshire where he worked on a stud farm..attempting to associate orphan foals with mares that had lost theirs (apparently by putting the dead foal skin on the orphan, so the smell would be familiar to the mare!).
The chateau was rather interesting, a huge place, perfect for a ghostly film setting…in fact, just before I crashed, Guy did say, be careful of the ghosts! Not sure if he was joking or not!!😳😂
Anyhow, it was only a one stop to break the eight hours to my first true destination…..Annecy 😎
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