beaune, france

we arrived in beaune, only about 7 minutes later than expected, and made our way to our hotel. it appeared it was actually on the opposite side of town, but seeing as beaune, like dijon, is such a tiny city, it probably only took us about 20 minutes to get there.
we couldn't believe how warm it was though! i love spring so much.
we rested for like half an hour while samina took the time to shower and i looked up couches for next weekend and grumbled about how unexpectedly expensive our hotel turned out to be.
then we were off again. we decided to leave most of our exploring for the next day since we knew we would have plenty of time to see everything we wanted in our short stay. and instead we headed to a cafe/bar and tried some wine since the region is known for its wine. after three different restaurants/bars/cafes (or whatever each particular one was), i discovered i like pinot noire and something i forget the name of but beaune was in the title.

the evening turned into a wine and dessert night. including two delicious desserts, plus something for free that i dont know what it was, but it was quite tasty as well.
apple crumble (the apple was good, but the ice cream was actually my favorite part):

mystery:

panna cotta:

we also had a lovely chat with an older australian couple at the restaurant we actually ate some dinner at. all starting because i asked if i could use the salt in french, and the man responded in english that i could have whatever if he knew what the heck i was saying haha.
by the end of the evening i was exhausted and went to sleep pretty quickly. in a nice comfy bed compared to the couch i had slept on the night before.

the next day started with the sun sort of shining (at least it wasn't raining like we expected!). we stopped by the patisserie down the street from the hotel and got our first of many pastries for the day. plus a baguette which was reallyyy good. samina even said so and she says she doesn't even really like baguettes!
we wandered into town, and found it to be surprisingly bustling for a sunday. although that was mostly just in one of the main squares.

i realize now you can't see the bustling in this picture, but you'll just have to take my word for it.
we purchased more pastries as we found more patisseries, moving quickly since they would be closing soon. and enjoyed the quaintness of the town as we went.

for lunch we parked ourselves on a bench facing some grass and a statue. there was even a nice clock tower nearby!

it was at this point that supposedly it started sprinkling a bit.. though all of the drops seemed to hit samina.
next up we tried to find the dali museum since there was a big sign for it.

we failed. but that could have had something to do with the fact that it was a sunday, so even if we were at the right door, it was probably locked.
we ended up deciding to follow some creek we had found because we figured the water had to take us somewhere exciting. we actually ended up at quite a lovely park with a small lake with fish in it, another merry-go-round, and even some paddle boats.

after a bit more wandering we both decided we were completely exhausted and headed back to the hotel to take a much needed nap.
when we got up an hour and a half later we were both very much refreshed and ready to continue our explorations.
we started meandering around the town again, but soon realized we were a little bored. its such a small town, and it was sunday, which meant to be honest there really wasn't all that much to do. we realized there had been no need for us to spend two nights there, but at this point we had already paid for the hotel and figured might as well try to entertain ourselves since there was no use in heading back early.
we sat on different benches. we stood on different benches.

we wandered up and down streets we realized we had already visited. i decided i was antsy and wanted to do something illegal (not too illegal of course, we wouldn't wanna get ourselves arrested in a foreign country). i also, in a different moment, decided i wanted to skateboard (not that i know how or anything). so it was funny when we then found this sign, which obviously explained why i wanted to skateboard in the first place:

more destinationless walking followed and soon it really did start to rain a little bit, on both of us this time. at which point we decided it was late enough that we could just head back to the hotel since we had seen practically the entire city already anyways.
that night it poured. which was a nice sound to get to go to sleep to. and the next morning it was beautiful again! what a good way to end the trip. andddd we didnt miss our train to get us back to lyon :)