We thought we woke up with plenty of time to make our 10:25 train from Paris Lyon to Dijon, then to connect on from Dijon to Beaune. However, we used Rex’s phone as our alarm in the morning and since it doesn’t connect to any cell service over here, it was still reading London time. We were an hour behind. We didn’t discover this error until it was 9:25. We rushed to finish packing and left the hotel without breakfast. We had to take three metro trains to get to the Paris Lyon station to catch the train and we didn’t have much time.
We arrived at the station in time to walk straight onto the train. Thank goodness. The clock on the phone is changed now, so that can be avoided again.
The train from Paris Lyon to Dijon was quick – a little over an hour. With our Eurail pass, we didn’t need reservations for the train, so when we got to the station we decided to have lunch at a nearby café in Dijon then take the next train on to Beaune. As we get further away from Paris, it is more difficult to communicate in English and our French is not so good. While at the café I wrote up a cheat sheet on how to ask when the train would arrive in Beaune. It worked perfectly. We knew when our stop would be so we could be ready.
The ride to Beaune was only 20 minutes. Once we got here we had to walk for awhile to find our hotel. Beaune is a very small town and the streets are laid out like a wagon wheel with little alleys here and there, which made finding our hotel interesting.
Our hotel is a quaint boutique hotel. We are staying in the top floor in a room for 4 people. We feel like we got the largest room in the place. There is no air conditioning, but we have multiple windows that provide a very nice cross breeze which makes it very pleasant. Also, all the television channels are in French. Oddly enough some of the shows and commercials we understand (slightly).
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