Mery-sur-Seine to Meursault
Thursday 21st September 2017
A very quiet overnight stay at the Mery-sur-Seine camp municipal although we were conscious that we had be off the site before the warden left reception otherwise we would be here for another night! So, we decided that as the canal was such a beautiful spot we would move over to the car park on the opposite side of the canal for our breakfast.
Before that though a morning walk with the dogs along the canal path. We thought we would head north along the canal to the next village of Saint Oulph and where we thought we might get some patisserie for breakfast. Well, it was a lovely pleasant walk but we came back empty handed and had to head into the boulangerie in Mery-sur-Seine for provisions.
Although we had planned our route down through France and into Italy we hadn’t decided on our overnight stops, although there were one or two places that we would want to get to if things worked out that way. One of those was Meursault. We had stopped there last year on our way through to Italy and absolutely love the place. And, as our route has panned out we are on for Meursault being our next stop – Yippee!
Our route took us down past Troyes, on to Dijon, into the Burgundy region through Nuits-St-Georges, Beaune and finally Meursault. Again, we avoided toll roads although our satnav was giving us real hassle today and really was not happy that we didn’t want to go on the A6.
Le Grappe D’Or is a campsite on the edge of Meursault just a couple of minutes’ walk from the centre. It has a superb location on a gradient with terraced pitches providing views over the vineyards of the area. Facilities are OK but not perhaps it’s best feature, but none-the-less for a short stay they are perfectly adequate. Although we have only used this site for an overnight stop we do intend to go back and stay for a few days to explore the local area.
There looks to be good walking and cycling in the area and the site hires cycles if you do not happen to have your own. We walked through some of the small roads amongst the vineyards and it was all very pleasant, quiet, and peaceful.
The site has a popular restaurant. We ate there last year and booked in again for our stay this time. Those who hadn’t booked or arrived at the site late were being turned away from the restaurant. They operate a fixed price menu and whilst you can choose off the menu and maybe only have one or two courses it really isn’t worth it. If you go for three courses at a fixed price you’ll pay less than choosing two items off the same menu. Ruth’s choice was grilled goats cheese salad, steamed cod with green beans (turned out that cod was salmon), and a creme caramel with blackcurrant caramel, whilst I had soup of the day, Boeuf Bourguignon, and chilled cherry soup with gingerbread croutons. Very tasty it all was too! Now this place isn’t going win any Michelin stars but you will get a tasty and good value meal here.
Meursault itself is a lovely village, well kept, clean, and it oozes that feel that this is a top wine region with the affluence to go with it. If you are not up on your wine you should know that the wines from this region are very good indeed, if you are, you will probably know that the neighbouring Puligny Montrachet is a top wine and not for those with a shallow pocket.
This is quiet spot to spend a day or a few. There are no immediate major roads or rail lines, just the local village roads with local traffic.
