East to..,

...... where the s/ is short for “sur” so we are now at Mézières on the Seine a community around 40kms west from central Paris.

Before we left Vandeuil we had a chat with Celine Fournaise the mistress of the vineyards we stayed at - they have 5 hectares of vines some as old as 30 years and has been in the Fournaise family for approximately 60 years.

They started picking the grapes today (by hand) and there will be 20 in the gang working for 9 days. By my calculations their crop will produce for them 37,500 bottles of champagne - we wish them well for their 2019 vintage!

The drive through to Mézières-Sur-Seine was on good motorway without much traffic until we were around 30kms east of Paris and then the density increased significantly so much so that it became stop/go for a 9 or so kilometre stretch, however once we cleared the core of Paris and were on the west side it thinned out again and remained comfortable driving to Mézières-Sur-Seine.

Our accommodation is in a gite on a residential property and has all that we require. It is 500m to a Carrefour supermarket so we walked down and got supplies for tonight’s meal there being no worthwhile restaurants locally.

An uneventful day but it has served the purpose of getting us close to Giverny so that we can spend a good amount of time there tomorrow before taking on the traffic again and getting across Paris to CDG airport where we sell the Peugeot back to Sodexa and then book into the Hotel.

A typical Mézières-Sur-Seine house 

Kms driven today: 208