Yes, you guessed it! Another early start. On the metro by 6 am to get to Gare de Lyon. In true Richard style we had done a reconnaissance run the night before, but that still didn't stop us popping up unexpectedly between two TGV on a deserted platform. The TGV is a high speed train (tren a grande vitesse) and takes a little over an hour to cover the distance from Paris to Dijon. The regional train could take 3 hours or more.
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| views from the train |
Summer has arrived in France.... just when I had put away my summer skirt and switched back to jeans and 2 layers of merino wool.
As we had already validated our eurail passes for the day, we took off straight away for Alesia... site of a major battle between the Gauls (French) and the Romans.
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| Museo Parc Alesia |
Museo Parc Alesia is off the beaten track, not beseiged by tourists and inconveniently spread over a couple of kilometres of HILLside, a good kilometre from the train station. It is very hot and I am still in a merino shirt?! Ah well... at least merino doesn't smell...
We were in time for the re-enactments...
Then begged a ride from some passing English tourists to see the Roman ruins
and statue of Vercengeterix
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| Baxter and armour |
Roman legion marching off to war.
Can you spot any extras?
Leighton is at the ruins of a Roman fort on the hillside above Alesia.
Vercengeterix
Walking past wheat fields to see the roman ruins and statue of Vercengeterix.
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