Wine-crazed (Les Toqués de Vins) - La Paulée Auvergnate (Trailer)
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AutoGrille
We laugh whenever we see one of these walkways/skyways over a French autoroute. They pretty much look the same from country to country, as do the toll superhighways.
Many of these rest plazas have logos and designations which say AutoGrille. I get a kick out of that. Like ... a car barbeque?
I'll take my Volkswagon medium-well, please!
We'd stayed the night before in Tournus, between Lyon and Dijon, driving back to Paris from the Côte d'Azur. I frequently pack a light, easy picnic of some sort so we don't really have to buy anything from the boutique if we don't want to. (And we usually don't want to.) This time, however, he'd had the foresight to pick up something from a bakery in Burgundy where we'd bought breakfast pastry. A couple of little quiches. Why hadn't we thought of this before?
Many of these places have microwave ovens you can use to heat up some of the food they sell or some of your own, to warm baby food, et cetera. Maybe we'll even take a little of that along -- microwave meals, not baby food. I'm gluten intolerant and as much as I like the novelty of a wrap sandwich, a newish thing in this country, the strange plastic qualities of the contents are less than appetizing.
To drive from Paris to the French Riviera in one long haul is certainly possible, and these costly autoroutes are actually well worth it. They are beautifully maintained, and really do get you straight there, pretty much. Yes, it's boring. VERY boring. I'm not supposed to drive anymore, due to my health, so he learned to drive about a decade ago and takes care of that part of things. It's really unsafe for one person to drive such a long time, so we stay overnight, often, for a proper rest. This time was Tournon, in the Ardèche but near Drôme, in fact, right across the Rhône it's the Drôme, and that was interesting. On the way back North, it was Tournus, in ... Burgundy? (Or is it Drôme again?) (There are regional names and département names.) I love France and am glad I settled here, but sometimes I start giggling because it looks like Ohio, or New York State ...
... until I see a Medieval fortified city in the distance ...
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