2019-06-28 Zermatt, Chillon Castle, Drive to Dijon

The nice folks at Crossfit Zermatt let me come in for an early morning workout. Gave me the keycode and I had the place to myself. We had breakfast and hit the road. Drove to Chillon castle, which was amazing and also contained the most impressive automaton I've ever seen. Pix below. Then we drove on to France, and to our destination. A chateau near Dijon (link). Had a walk through their gardens, got a bottle of wine from the cellar which we enjoyed before going to bed.

Some shots of Chillon Castle:

Alisa, Jenny in cellar

Tom & Matthew in one of the windows

longsword, Jenny for scale

View of lake from tower

Shots of the AMAZING Automaton:

Castle w workings underneath

Over 100 moving mechanical figures, only half of which are out front. Rest are inside doing various things.

Look at the detail on that music box cylinder!

Working baffles, pipe organ and drum!

Some shots of the chateau we stayed at: (Barbiry-sur-Ouche)

Guest house we stayed in (former stables)

Taking a walk in the garden

Front of Chateau

Pigeon tower!

Wine cellar

And what we found there.

The day's drive