Originally Posted by
cyclezealot
Should you like riding among an expanse of vineyards as far as the eye can see
A helpful
warning for me -- since I soon get bored of seeing vineyards everywhere while riding. (Also get bored with seeing just trees everywhere). I guess I'm just not enough of a connoisseur, but one grapevine looks pretty much like another.
Why I prefer the valleys around Chambery + east [
map ]: vineyards Yes, but also horses + cows, also other farm crops, also dramatic cliffs + peaks above.
Originally Posted by
cyclezealot
Other advantages of Burgundy over the Loire.
When Sharon + I were exploring around the (lower?) Loire [
map ], like around the famous chateaux, we rode up + down some hills -- it was a few years ago, but seemed like just by trying some roads away from the obvious rivers, we found hills easily enough.
Ken