September 29
The streets are so interesting and I wander along, trying to look up as much as possible but it is a dangerous business. The streets may be narrow and winding but most still have traffic and buses passing through, and a lot of them are cobbled, and you have to watch out for dog droppins! No wonder it is an exhasusting business and in 30 degree heat by five o'clock. Especially chaotic with the tram works and diversions.
The buildings are a strange and fascinating assortment of medieval, renaissance and more recent additions, all popped into whatever space was available and designed to elbow their way in.
Around the museum are many Maisons Particulaires, private mansions, built between the 15th and 18th century by great parliamentary or bourgeois families. Ornate facades, private towers, monumental entrances and hidden shady courtyards. Amazing.
This museum is in the cloisters of a Bernadine monastery. What a beautiful setting and on such a gorgeous day, yet again.
Inside the museum (which was delightfully cool) are recreated aspects of daily life in Dijon through the ages.
The little shops and the history of famous Dijon industries were fascinating. Dijon mustard, Pernot biscuits, cassis and gingerbread, and bicycles.
Back outside, it is not hard, if you look up above the shop fronts, cars and passers by, to imagine what life must have been like. And so much of the history is still there to be enjoyed. No surprise that there are many tourists but not too many.
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