Leaving Strasbourg, we headed down the autoroute toward Mulhouse then to Besancon where we turned off the motorway onto cross-country N-roads. Besancon looked very interesting as we passed through (sadly having no time to stop) with a fort on the edge of the escarpment above the town and pleasant gardens and roads in the town itself.
The road south from Besancon - the RN73 - proved to be a great driving road with a succession of fast swoops and sweeping bends accompanied by truly stunning scenery - definitely a road to bank for a future car rally - just watch out for "les flics" if you decide to drive it at any speed!
The road heads over the western edge of the Jura mountains and through the Jura wine region. By chance (it was lunch time) we stopped in the town of Arbois which proved to be very pretty. We spent so much time walking around that we missed lunch completely and had to resort to buying bread and pastries from one of the boulangeries - not a bad turn of events as it happens as they were delicious.
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