We waited for the bread lady, but she did not show so we decided to walk down to see the grape pickers. The directions given were very confusing. Unbeleivably we saw the same pickers we had seen the previous day! After some time we managed to locate our grape pickers and went over to them. We were greeted warmly, but no breakfast! It was obvious that that had not arrived yet. They all seemed to be family members and we watched them working very hard for some time. The young children were there as they had been given the day off school to help. We decided to head for the Canal de Bourgoyne as there were excellent cycle tracks along it. We drove to Chablis to have a look round and service the vans at the aire there. We then drove to Montbard and found a really good spot to stay at the little marina alongside the canal. We had a little incident with a floating hotel, who weren’t too happy that we were there, but the incident was resolved and we agreed to disagree. TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER It was a lovely morning and Bill Tom and I cycled down to a restaurant 5 k away at Montigny la Resle to have a look at the menu. This reataurant had been highly recommended by the lady who did the wine tasting. We then walked down to the wine picking in the proprietor’s field on the edge of the village. The vineyard was small and the were about 10 pickers who had completed about 50 per cent of the vineyard by 11::30. We then spent a leisurely afternoon sampling some Chablis we had bought the previous day. The lady at the wine producer told us to go and visit her husband and the wine pickers who would be the only grape pickers in the nearby vineyard. We tried to follow her directions and saw some grape pickers in one of the nearby vineyards. We were warmly welcomed and given wine by the pickers. We were surprised that the chap who was in charge gave us his card. We thought he was from the firm which collected the pinot noir grapes and produced the Cremant for our hosts. When we got back later that day we went over to order out wine and the lady host was highly amused because we had met her deadly rival, who they had fallen out with! When we said he had offered his card to us she was very defensive and told us how bad his wine was. It was becoming obvious that this lady liked the sound of her own voice and we were having great difficulty getting away from her. We took quite some time to order the wine and she got our sddresses so she could invite us to a wine celebration next year. She said it would be good for us to meet the pickers in the morning and have breakfast with them at 9 am after the bread man had been. We had a BBQ and sat outside until late. The meal was excellent. MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2012 We decided to do some wine tasting in the Chablis region. We stopped off en route at a Geant shopping complex near Auxerre where we filled up with provisions. We drove to a France Passion at Domaines Tupinier at Bleigny Le Carreau. The site was excellent and we were wamly welcomed by the proprietor. We arranged a wine tasting for 6 pm. Before that we walked round the village. The wine tasting was excellent and we spent 2 hours there tasting Bourgogne Chardonnay Vielles Vignes and Chablis. We also tasted the Ratafia de Bourgogne and Crème de Cassis. We then had our evening meal outside and had a think about which wines to buy.