Summer Holiday Time – Yippee!!!
Mommy decided to spend time in France this year ( Psss! she has started to learn French and wants to practice)
Our holiday started on Monday …. without breakfast. So, when we finally had our first stop, I was really hungry …
This time my companion is Batty – she wanted a huge cup of coffee. If you ask me … she was quite sleepy, so she really needed it.
Our first stop was Besançon – a quiet little place.
Our humans went out to get some food. We preferred to stay in the hotel with baguette and cheese and wine – all French style.
The most interestig thing in this little town is the big citadelle built by Vauban – the architect of Luis XIV – you all know him – the King with the sun obsession. So on Tuesday we had to visit it . The way up was quite steep.
So we needed many breaks.
But the view was great.
That’s the guy – Vauban – looks very competent. So let’s visit his fortress…
There was a mill – of course I had to try it out, but …. it didn’t work. Crap – would have been a lot of fun.
There was a zoo.
We had our lunch break near the turtle pond.
This is the Porte Rivotte – an old city gate.
But much more interesting was the tunnel under the river Doubs.
On Wednesday we had a petit-déjeuner. After that we went to the Musée du Temps – The Time Museum because, apparently, Besançon is famous for its clocks and watches. The Museum is in an old Rennaissance Palace inside which it was surprisingly hot that day so that the 3rd floor was closed – they call this heat „canicule“.
Disappointment 🙁 – this is not a canon but binoculars.
After the museum we went directly to Clermont- Ferrand. It is a bigger town and we stayed in a bigger hotel.
In the evening we went to the Place Jaude – the central place of the town to get something to eat.
The next day we went by tram – public transport in another country is always an adventure- but it was quite easy to manage.
The destination was the Michelin museum where we had a lot of fun.
The funniest experience was when Mommy put me inside the profile of the biggest tyre in the wold.
We had a break in a little park – Jardin Lecoq.
Behind the Scenes.
It was so hot that I had to take my shoes off and put my feet in one of the fountains. Batty said it was not allowed,but …. who cares.
In the evening our humans went out to eat … again. We stayed in the hotel and played games, ate macarons and drank wine. Batty said I cheated, but I think she just drank too much wine and that’s why she kept loosing.
On Friday our journey continued. We went to Carcassonne, but on the way we had a stop by the Garabit-Viaduc. Well, not the Eiffel Tower but at least built by the same architekt.
In the evening we arrived at Carcassonne – the biggest fortified medieval city in Europe.
So of course the first thing we did the next day was to visit the Cité. It was very full of people and very hot but we still had a lot of fun.
There was a torture museum, but we didn’t go inside.
But finally… a real canon.
Today we went on a walk around the town…
… explored a little park…
… an saw the Canal du Midi – a famous channel built at the time of old King Louis XIV
We saw works of art and of course, I had to do my own interpretation of them – this is always a lot of fun – bringing the works of art to life, you know.
Because it got hotter we decided to go back to the hotel…
… across Pont Neuf so that we could take a picture of Pont Vieux and the river Aude.
Fun fact: Mommy lost the bag of her mobile phone while taking pictures of me with the works of art – so she had to walk all the way back in the heat to look for it and luckily she found in again.
Well, that was the first part of my adventure. Tomorrow we are off to a new destination.