The forecast was heavy rain all day. We drove to an aire right in the centre of Beaune. We were really lucky to get two places as the aire was very popular.
Beaune is in the heart of the Burgundy wine region and there a large number of caves and wine shops in the town. The restaurant Loiseau des Vignes is here and is the Michelin starred restaurant where Raymond Blanc came and ate with the widow of Bernard Loiseau, the famous French chef. We went to tourist info and mentioned the restaurant and they confirmed it was excellent and tried to get us a table. Unfortunately it was fully booked today, so we walked there and booked a table for tomorrow.
We had spent the afternoon walking round the town and had the statutory Café avec gateaux. The town is quite touristy because of the wine connection and the price of some of the wines was really high.
It never stopped raining all day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. The forecast for Friday is much better and we planned to get the bikes out and cycle to Puligny Montrachet, which is an exclusive village producing very expensive wines.