After three nights at Campéole Le Brabois we packed up, emptied Eileen’s bowels and set off back into Nancy to find the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy. It’s only a tiny museum set inside a pretty house built by Eugène Corbin in 1911 and contains some fine furniture and beautiful glassware from the Art Nouveau period.
On the walk back to Eileen we stumbled across the Rue Félix Faure which had some beautiful houses dating from that period. So having finally got my fix of Art Nouveau we got back on the road and finally left Nancy.
The E24 and N4 took us west and we had our picnic in a busy, but uninspiring, lay-by en route. In St Dizier we stocked up on food for us and for Eileen and then continued further west. We passed a few sunflower fields, endless wheat fields and some combine harvesters doing their stuff and that was about it, but we certainly ticked off some kilometres towards England. It’s strange, but we’re both feeling a little flat, like the landscape, as if we have already closed off this trip in our heads. Maybe it’s the lack of spectacular scenery, or that we have no more friends in France to look forward to seeing…..
We’re now set up in a campsite in Chalons en Champagne wondering what to do tomorrow. We’re apparently in the champagne region of France and I’m not a champagne drinker, but I’m wondering what they use to make it, as we haven’t seen a vineyard yet. Ah well, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.