Day 1 and 2:

Hard to realize that we have been in Dijon for 3 days now and will be packing up and leaving tomorrow morning. So I will just be posting a photo from each place that we visited.

Day 1: Our first tour was a walking tour of the city of Dijon, where we have been staying. It was quite interesting and very helpful to gain knowledge of the history of the city. Then we visited a vineyard and tasted some wine. Also got to see the most expensive vines in the land, so expensive that the wine wasn't even on sale for purchase.

I have fallen in love with all the architecture. Everything is made of stone, or partial wooden boards. And most of the streets are cobble stone.

Here is the Duke tower top, which we later climbed over 300 stairs to get to the top and see a panoramic view of the city.

Panoramic view of the city.

The beautiful Catholic church.

After a tour of the city, we then had a wine tasting at the Chateau of Marsannay. In France the wines are named or "branded" by the region they come from. So Marsannay wine can only come from the small village of Marsannay.

Day 2: We started our day off with Pascal teaching us the history of all of Burgundy, then left for lunch at a green tourism farm. We then visited a crop farm, dairy farm, Charolais beef farm and then ate steaks at nearby restaurant in the small village.

For lunch we had many courses. We started off with wine, then a chicken patty and bread. Our main course was scrambled eggs, which were very good and the chicken.. not so much. We finished with some cheese and jam, crepes with sugar and a very strong dessert liquor.

Here is the grain producer standing in a field of rapeseed, which is like canola oil. He also produces wheat and peas.

I was surprised to see the farmer had a fairly large sprayer, which even had gps. The gps doesn't include autosteer though like most in the States, it is only used to ensure the farmer doesn't overlap and use more spray than needed.

Cows from the dairy farm, which are milked twice a day in a milking parlor.

Here is a Charolais bull that was at the breeding farm we visited. France only uses pure bread animals (they do not cross bread) but only 10% of the cattle are actually registered Charolais and the other are merely commercial because it is a lot of paperwork and money to register the cattle.

After visiting the farm we went to a local restaurant to have a steak, which was served with small lightly fried potatoes. This meal was excellent and a great way to celebrate our National beef month!