Still warm and sunny. Decided on the spur of the moment that we’d have a ride out in the car. I made a picnic lunch and a flask of coffee. We headed off to the Morvan. East to Château-Chinon then north through Planchez to the Lac des Settons where we paused for lunch on the shores of a deserted reservoir which was decked out for summer traffic but no one was there. Mike took a photo of the fishing regulations which were translated (very, very badly) into English and German.
Drove south again through the forest on tiny, winding, bumpy roads through Gien-sur-Cure on the hill down to Anost, where there was supposed to be a reserve for sanglier (wild boar). We went through the town but saw no signs for the reservation and no signs of any piggies either. Gave up and tried to find the road through to Bussy via Sanceray and ended up on a farm track which lead us back into Anost where we found the “main” road to Bussy. South to Corcelles and on to the D978, turned off and ran south down the gorges de la Canche, (river invisible below the road through banks of trees) to St Prix then Glun-en-Glenne on the hilltop. Took the D500 past the source of the river Yonne and wound our way south west through small villages; Dragne, les Bourbas, Sanglier, Le Niret and La Queudre, to the small spa town of St Honoré-les-Bains, which although it had a thriving modern Casino seemed to have seen far grander days. West into Vandenesse, then southwest back on the flat following the valley of l’Aron and the canal du Nivernais back to Cercy-la-Tour.
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