Dijon, France

6 June - Day 82


Today we drove out to the outlet shopping city of Metzinger, where they have a large number of outlet shops. Among the brands there were Armani, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste, Swatch, Samsonite and the usual Nike, Puma and Adidas.

I (this is Marcus by the way) got a suit from Hugo Boss and that was awesome. Apart from that, the only other thing we bought was some bad Chinese food. We had kebabs for dinner though, those were almost as awesome as the suit.

7 June - Day 83

We left Stuttgart this morning to head back into France, specifically to Dijon.

We then arrived in Dijon, checked into our hotel, did laundry and bought groceries. Exciting stuff.

8 June - Day 84

We only had one full day in Dijon so today we went into the city to explore. We went to the tourist office and bought a map for the owl tour, a self guided tour around the city. The owl is symbolic of the city. I don't why though, you'll have to Google that one.

Dijon is a nice enough city. It's got churches and statues and libraries and buildings and things like that. I think it was also home to an artist called Francois Rude who my dad probably wants me to mention so he can put up a picture of a nude statue.

It's also a bit messy at the moment, as they are busy building a brand new tram system. All the roads and roundabouts they dug up did a good job of confusing our car's GPS.

I guess Dijon would have been an impressive city if we hadn't already been to Paris. And Bordeaux. And Toulouse. And Barcelona. And Krakow. And Budapest. It's much better than Keszthely though, Keszthely kinda sucked.

And no, we didn't eat any mustard.

 

9 June - 85

Having left Dijon, we drove for about 4 hours to our next destination, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Chamonix is situated in a valley at the foot of Mt Blanc as you may or may not have guessed.

It's a bit of a ski resort town and it's very nice. There are good views of the mountains everywhere you walk and the town itself is pretty good looking. While eating lunch, we saw a woman with a huge dog taking a drink out of the town square fountain (the dog, not the woman) and that was pretty funny. We are here for a week so expect more riveting stories like this one.