Today, we went to visit the Chateau Du Sully (pictured here), a 16th Century hunting estate. Boar heads everywhere, antler chandeliers, rhino horns — a veritable battlefield inside (the animals lost).
This particular castle is surrounded by a carp-filled moat. Huge fish that lunch at the bread chunks you’re given in the gift shop for that purpose.
More splendid that this, however, was the drive to and from. I can’t get over how restorative this landscape is to one’s office-trapped soul. Vineyards and stone walls, framed on one side by mountains and the other by a lush valley, over which clouds pile on top of each other in dramatic fashion.
A note about the weather: What I first described as sunny and temperate is in fact more complicated. It seems there is a pattern to the daily weather. It’s never particularly cold or hot, but the cloud/sun/rain dynamic shifts throughout the day. You can wake up to blue sky and have rainfall by noon. Or vice versa. The rain never lasts long, but it’s often a downpour. At worst, you’re stranded in a book store for a while. At best, you are treated to the kind of views that have made Burgundy famous.
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