kerrilynn

I'm going to drive from Rennes to Geneva and looking for help on where to stay midway.
I am staying 1 night on MSM the evening of 8/4 and have to be at the Geneva Airport by 1300 hours on 8/6. Even though gas is pricey, I would love to see the countryside, slower than 200 mph and have the opportunity to occasionally stop for a tasty treat or to walk a beautiful little village/town. On Google maps it shows 526 mi / 846 ki and about 8 hours of driving. That is a very doable distance but was wondering what would be a good halfway or 2/3 distance point to stay for the night? Any help on this topic would be very much appreciated.

StuDudley

According to Viamichelin.com, the quickest route passes Auxerre - which is a very interesting city & where I would stop. Pick up a walking itinerary at the TI & follow it. The path is also painted on the sidewalk - except where the sidewalk has recently been re-surfaced.

Of course, Auxerre is in Burgundy - with many castles & pretty countryside nearby.

If you have already visited Auxerre/Burgundy - I would stop in Troyes. Fantastic city.

Stu Dudley

PalenQ

Vezelay (***Michelin site I believe), near Auxerre, is also a really nice stop and small enough to be an easy 2-hour stop - for lunch and a walk around the old medieval town:

http://www.burgundytoday.com/towns/vezelay.htm

Vezelay - one of the most thriving pilgrimage meccas in medieval days (I think on the way to Chartres and or Santiago) but when the holy relic was exposed as a fake the town's pilgrimage trade dried up and the village on a hill slumbered along untouched by the world until rehabbed and restored in the 1800s- Vezelay an Italian hill town in France:

http://www.burgundytoday.com/towns/vezelay.htm

PalenQ

https://www.google.com/search?q=veze...w=1745&bih=864

Oops copied on thing twice -meant these images of Vezelay today!

Plenty of parking in lots below the hill!

kerrilynn

thank you very much, this will be my first time to France and am so excited!!