Saint Point
afternoon ride : Cluny to Beaujolais
15/07/10 23:50 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
after lunch, a change of hotel
here’s the view from our new bedroom window:
![Le Patron @ L'Hôtel Saint-Odilon](l1012884.jpg)
Then off south, stopping first in the hamlet of Saint Point, with its (inevitable) Église Romaine
![L'Église de Saint Point](l1012885.jpg)
![St Amable, dans l'Église de Saint Point](l1012893.jpg)
and the (privately owner-occupied) Château Lamartine, formerly eponymously owned & occupied:
![Château Lamartine](img_2186.jpg)
nice wee place, and a decent looking campsite nearby, so we may return!
![Saint Point : the village (or most of it)](l1012911.jpg)
This next bit was a surprise. The posh vineyards of the Côte d’Or that we visited last trip were interesting, but less-opulent Beaujolais is actually far more scenically interesting, with far more dramatic slopes, and with some vineyards every bit as carefully-tended as anything we saw in Meursault or Vosne-Romanée (and some just as scruffy and neglected)
![Beaujolais vineyards near Fleurie](l1012913.jpg)
![Les Vins Sensuels de Fleurie](l1012914.jpg)
A nice style in promo here, too. She’s reminiscent of the graphic on the old Gitânes fag-packets you never seem to see in France anymore
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