Eating Well on your Camping Vacation in Burgundy.

After a shower in the tiled loo and rub-down with a thick nautical blue towel, I head upstairs. It is a fine fall day in France, still summer in the afternoons, with nights that supply a crisp reminder of winter to come. A 2 hour journey by minivan thru rolling French country had brought us to the medieval town of Auxerre, where La Belle poque and her crew awaited. Many folks I meet are convinced that camping vacations are still hosted in wet fields, where food is tough to cook as transportable stoves fail to light in the damp weather.

Its a hideous image, but thankfully something that is now a thing of the past as many of Europes quality campsites boasts all sort of hotel style features from restaurants to bakeries to quality shops on site. Nevertheless , if youre still left worried about the standard of the food on your trip, then why not consider one of Burgundys campsites? This area of France is known for its high living and gourmet eating, so you are bound to be in for a culinary treat. Here are just some of the appetising treats you should expect whilst camping in Burgundy. The Beef The main beef in the area is the Carollais beef cattle, and as such beef eaters are assured enormous rich portions. This style is repeated with plenty of other dishes, and if your French isnt that good, watch out for the phrase "a la Bourguignonne". There are lots of other meats if you are not a chicken or meat eater, varied hams, hare, calf head and even some brook fish generally poached in white wine, with bacon, onions, garlic and butter. Ultimately naturally, there are the snails, and though many of us will turn their noses up at them, the standard escargots are tasty, served as they are stewed with Chablis, carrots, onions and shallots, then full of garlic and parsley butter. La Belle poque slides into a chamber to rest whilst a collection of gates at every end closes so the water level can be dropped. It was originally built to move wood from the Morvan forests to meet the firewood demands of Paris. The canal saw the last of its merchant traffic in the 1970s. At the stone farmhouse ( complete with cable TV dish ) of Mr. Bersan, we descend into a traditional cavern for a winetasting.
Burgundy wine tasting