Spending tonight in Belfort, France

The weather sure has changed.  It is cloudy and cool.  I think the rain that this area is getting must be the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon that crossed the Atlantic.  It has definitely changed the temperature up here in France anyway!

We left Beaune thinking we wouldn't take the toll roads but that turned out to be a mistake.  But it's something you only know after all is said and done.  We were doing fine going along the small country roads until we got to a town where there was a detour.  From that detour we had no idea where the GPS was taking us so we reprogrammed it to take us back to the toll road, which had us backtracking some but at least once we got on it we knew we were on our way.  

It rained pretty much our whole drive to Belfort.  We had wanted to visit the city of Besancon but it was starting to rain there, too, so we kept on going.  We got off the toll road a little further down the road so we could take the scenic route and it was very pretty.  Not many places to stop at along the way but I did manage to get in a few pictures!  These are taken along the Doubs River.

We later stopped in a town called L'isles sur le Doubs where it was raining, but we stopped anyway to get a little bite to eat.  We thought they didn't have any "food" so we just ordered tea, cookies and an apple croissant but when we went to pay, we noticed little pizzas and other things on a small shelf in the display case.  Too bad, because what we ate there was excellent and those little pizzas probably would have been delicious.

Once in Belfort and after the GPS unnecessarily took us off the expressway, put us back on then had us turn around, get on and get off again back where it originally made us get off, we finally found our hotel.  Crazy.  It's raining and quite cool here in Belfort, but this Ibis hotel is the nicest Ibis hotel we have ever stayed in and it's one of the CHEAPER Ibises we have ever stayed in, too.  Who would've guessed.  We have our laptops facing the big picture window in our room where we can look outside at the trees and grass and watch the rain falling.