Next day we drove past Geneva to the Burgundy village of Rully,

Rully Castle and Vineyard, Burgundy

Town Square, Rully

Plateau of Burgundy cheeses, yummm

 where we stopped for a gastronomic lunch and then on to Auxerre in Central France.

  Auxerre was also a most interesting town with a massive Cathedral similar in style to Notre Dame in Paris.

  A Son and Lumiere in the cathedral that evening enlightenend us as to how old the town was developed. 

The restored entrance archway, the heads of all these statues had originally been chopped off by the non-Catholics

It had a Church built on the same site in 750's, but that was destroyed, and eventually sometime in the 1250's one of the Priests pleaded with the landed gentry of the area to donate their wealth in order for the Church to be built, advising him that he would go to Paradise if he did so!  The houses in the City were all of the Norman 1050's style, as London must have looked before the great fire in 1066, higgledy piggledy beams holding up overhangs and vault fronted houses, and mostly well restored and preserved.

Clock street, look similar to the streets in Rouen, Normandy