Day Trip: Biot, France

Biot (pronounced: bee-OH) is a lovely, tiny hilltop (what else!) town famous for glassworks.  Glass blowing in fact; for glassware, plates, bowls, pitchers, lamps, vases etc...  The town has been around over 2500 years!  http://www.visit-biot.com/

Museum with collection of ceramic jars
dating back 800 years.

Our "day trip" to Biot was a spontaneous one, an "after lunch" car ride to be exact - we live only a few minutes away!  As I described, Biot is a hilltop village and the car ride up the winding streets is quite steep at certain points, but the vistas from there are amazing!  Parking the car takes some skill, because all the parking is on the road going back down via a back lane.  Undaunted, and our little car being just that, little, we found a spot at the very end of the car park!  Now the short walk up to town is always a very good stretch of the legs because the incline is very steep and you feel your lunch calories burning away.  (Many years ago, we could not find village parking and had to drive down to the parking area below the village; we climbed stair after stair, hill after hill and still more stairs - this in a pair of flip-flops and while toting two little ones along!)

The peaceful church of
St. Marie Madeleine

We visit Biot often not only because it is nearby, but because it is quaint and charming.  We always visit the church at the end of a pebble stone road and for the past few years has been undergoing restoration, section by section.  Our recent visit revealed a lovely church - beautiful, simple and filled with a calming peacefulness.
Read more: http://www.visit-biot.com/discover/historical-heritage/monuments-sites/church-sainte-marie-madeleine

We'd been walking a bit, stopping to browse in the shops, looking over menus for future lunches and admiring the glassworks that we worked up a thirst!  A refreshing glass of rose is always a welcome treat - any village, any town anywhere in France!      Fifi

Does that table have your name on it?