Blandine and I have been all around France, but my favorite bit remains just a short hour's drive from home: Beaujolais. Blandine can't understand my strange fascination with this region. I can't have enough of it. Miles and miles of slowly undulating vineyards dotted with the odd chateau or two. But there are vineyards on hills and chateaus right outside our doorstep! wails Blandine. And she is right. Our house on the banks of the Rhone, with the Côte Roti vineyards along one side of the Rhone valley and the Rhone flowing by, is as pretty as a picture. Beaujolais is the same, but somehow... different. Perhaps it is the quality of the light, or the seductive effect of the endless low hills, or the fact that the chateaus are older and more numerous, or that the villages are prettier, built as they are of the yellow stone that gives the region the tag 'villages of golden stone'.
Whatever the reason, I dragged Blandine there again last weekend. Here are more photos, hopefully better than the ones in my previous post on Beaujolais (on that visit, the camera got discharged and I as forced to take photos with a faulty iPhone). This is the first set of photos, of the villages that go by the name villages of golden stone: (villages de pierres dorées). Next post will be on the vineyards.
These are the featured villages: Charnay, Frontenas, Oingt, Bagnols, Cogny, Salles Arbuissonas (there are a lot more in the pierres dorées region, but these are the once we covered).
Whatever the reason, I dragged Blandine there again last weekend. Here are more photos, hopefully better than the ones in my previous post on Beaujolais (on that visit, the camera got discharged and I as forced to take photos with a faulty iPhone). This is the first set of photos, of the villages that go by the name villages of golden stone: (villages de pierres dorées). Next post will be on the vineyards.
These are the featured villages: Charnay, Frontenas, Oingt, Bagnols, Cogny, Salles Arbuissonas (there are a lot more in the pierres dorées region, but these are the once we covered).
Charnay
Oingt
BAGNOLS
Cogny
Salles Arbuissonnas en beaujolais
