Fall and Harvest Time in Burgundy, France

Fisherman at Sunset

We went out for a delicious dinner at the Restaurant William Frachot at the Chapeau Rouge hotel in Dijon.

We had a relaxing evening 

For those of you wondering how we manage to "live" on a boat for so many months of the year, I'm providing just two pictures so you can see we aren't suffering.

Dining area looking into the living room

Living room looking towards the dining area and into the kitchen.

 What happens when friends come to visit us in Burgundy who happen to be in the wine business back in the States?  We go wine tasting!  Then, between wine tastings, we drink more wine and eat great food.

Stan and Gail with a background showing the Cote D'Or.  It's Fall the grapes have been picked, the leaves are turning golden, and the vines are preparing to sleep for the winter.

Wine tasting st Domaine Dubreuil-Fontaine Pernand-Vergelesses

More wine tasting

Back at the boat making sure we liked the wine we had tried

Then on to Olivier Leflaive for a lovely lunch with a tasting of 9 different wines.

Rabelo at Lechatelet where we've been hanging out

 Lechatelet is a farming community and it's harvest time.  In France corn is fed to pigs, not people.

The corn stalks have dried out and are ready for harvest.

This is part of our walk with the river on one side and the fields on the other.

The harvester comes through the fields of corn like a lawn mower.  It cuts the stalks, removes the leaves, shucks the corn, and throws the waste out the back.  It's an amazing process.

This is what the field looks like after the harvest. 

Very little corn is lost.  After the harvest locals come with burlap sacks searching for any corn missed by the machine.

The stalks are then cut down to the dirt

The next step is to deeply till the soil.

The soil is turned so deeply that there is little evidence that a field of corn was growing here

The soil is turned again,  smoothed and prepared for the next harvest 

It looks like a winter grass is planted

Winter crop

It's such fun when friends "stop by" for a quick visit.  

Don and Andrea came by for lunch on their way from Germany to Portugal.

Our walk around Lechatelet where you can see it is a farming community.

We had quite a bit of rain and the river Saone was flowing.

We had this curious cow come by to check us out.

More Charolais cows.  A couple of youngsters in front.

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Until the next time...
Lisa