Dijon. It also has wine.

This is part of the Hotel de Ville in Dijon. When we first started travelling around France, we found a Hotel de Ville in almost every town we visited, so we thought it must have been the main hotel in each place. But it's not. It's the name for the town hall! (Luckily, we never tried to ask for a room in one!)



The cellars of the Chateau de Marsannay, in Burgundy, where we did wine tasting. The tastings are held 9 metres underground, and the walls of the cellars are lined with barrells and bottles.

You have to pay to taste wine at the caves (cellars) in Burgundy, and the wine production is controlled by all sorts of rules:
* it's forbidden to list the type of grape on the label of a Burgundy wine - instead you list the region (ie. Burgundy) and if your wine is good enough, you can list the town you are from (such as Marsannay). The consumer is meant to know what type of grape comes from which region.
* a wine tasting committee will tell you whether your wine is good enough to have the town listed on the label before it goes to sale (Would love to know how we get onto this committee!!!)
* Burgundy vines are not allowed to be irrigated when it's dry, or covered when it rains... you must take whatever nature gives you!

We paid, we drank, and we had a great time!




There are more photos on flickr

ps. still searching for "mon cul"!