May 4. Not so far to travel today. about 165 miles, thru easy territory, again tho with several options for driving. We have GPS so I decided to let it tell us the route to take, and we ended up going thru Switzerland, via Geneva, along the lake to Lausanne and then back into France. Quite an unexpected treat for us. There's a fountain, or more accurately water jet, in Geneva in the lake. Water shoots up to almost 460 feet high, at 130 or gallons a second, and at a speed of 125 miles an hour.
We’re in the town of Besancon,more a stop to break the journey than for any specific sight seeing. It's very near Switzerland, in the Franche-Compte region. One of the more interesting things to see in Besancon is the Astronomical clock described as "is quite a mechanical marvel. Built in 1860, its inner workings are comprised of more than 30,000 interoperating pieces, driving 37 separate clockface gauges." It's huge, approx 18 feet hight and 6 feet wide. Quite a spectacle.