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Here are some digital shots
and sketches from our 2009 trip in Burgundy with a barge trip to follow. I
was testing a new mini digital
camera and the results were variable. More travel sketches to come. Click thumbnails to enlarge |
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Vaux-le-Vicomte grandeur from the past |
Pinot country or
is that chardonnay |
What a roof
Baune hospice |
Wine tasting. Ink and coloured pencil |
Small group
travel |
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| Passing trains |
Proportions
OK.
Pity about the shed |
Baune Earlier
visit |
Burgundy village amongst the vines |
Burgundy vineyard |
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| Wine museum Baune |
Baune
Empty street |
I am a fine
musician, I play on market day |
Baune clock tower |
On behalf of my mum
welcome to Baune |
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| The
chateau pencil sketch |
The
Vineyard
pencil,watercol. |
Burgundy village |
En route with
Didier version 2 |
To the
vineyard
watercolour |
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The
river bank
pencil, pastel watercolour |
Harvest at Pontigny |
The
chateau of the wine makers |
En
route with Didier version 1 |
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By barge from Auxerre to
Clamecy |
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| Leaving Auxerre |
First
lock of many |
First night
stop Vincelle |
Room
to spare |
Next stop Mailly
la Ville |
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| Why are we
waiting |
Everything stops
for lunch |
Held
together by wire |
En route along
the canal |
A glimpse of
country |
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| Being followed |
Morning mist |
Vincent where are you |
No parking? |
Vezelay at the
hill top |
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| Noyers
village renovations needed? |
Noyers hist.village
the red door |
rural retreat
en route |
The
Canal |
Clamecy flagday |
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| Leaving Auxerre |
Village in the
Yonne valley |
Vauban View from
the chateau |
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Arrival in
Clamecy |
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| The
Yonne and the canal |
Mailly
la Ville |
Along
the tow path |
Lunch
time |
Vezelay from afar |
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| The
next lock comes into view |
Canal
village
pencil,watercol. |
the
drawbridge
pencil,watercol. |
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A few days in Paris |
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| View from he
hotel |
Notre Dame
restored |
Not only the
front |
It hurts your
eyes |
Pont St Michel |
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| Pont Alexander |
The emperor's
tomb |
Pont St Michel |
Grand Palace
re-opened |
Before the
blinding clean up |
