My World of Travel and Food: Flavigny-sur-Ozerain

I chose Flavigny-sur-Ozerain as an overnight trip because Andy and I hadnt been to that part of Burgundy and it was only just before we left that I discovered the movie Chocolat was filmed there. Huh. I wouldn’t have chosen it if I knew that because I would have thought too touristy. As it turned out it was nice and quiet but I can see it would get pretty busy at times (the telling bus park areas just outside the village walls).

It’s a pretty village, sitting high on a hill (which I ran up the next morning and a decent hill it was!). Fully walled, very old and quaint. Our bed and breakfast was a renovated barn dating back from the 14^th or 15^th century.

I had decided we’d go casual for dinner. There was a reputed pizza hamburger place a few kms down the road. Apparently people travel from Dijon to have these pizzas (really???). Danger signs should have rung when we had to preorder our food. Not having a clue at all what the place was about we pitched up 15 minutes late to our precooked pizzas and burger sitting in boxes (pizzas) glad wrap (dad’s burger).

The process was you grabbed your order and took it to the room next door with your wine to sit and eat (more casual than you can possibly imagine and this particular evening is now a huge laughing point for us).

Our pizzas were soggy having been sitting in the box. But that was not so bad. Dad’s burger, now THAT was bad. It looked really sad sitting there sweating in it’s glad wrap. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard dad say anything was not good and he said “it was a bit mushy” ... now for dad to say that means it was pretty bad. Poor dad! He managed to give it a good old Bowdie go. I felt so bad ... all my research and I chose this place for our first dinner out, their first out in France ever? Nat!!!

Anyway we have had endless laughs about that pizza place and the breakfast the bnb put on the next morning was a glorious affair. But gotta say, it was funny seeing the bnb owner's surprise when we were back from dinner within 45 minutes of leaving. We just said we were tired, but really how long do people usually spend in a shed eating soggy pizza and burger? It's not a place to linger!!