Early September is a good time to travel in France. But the weather can change later in the month. We had good weather all but 3 days of the trip. Most mornings in Paris and Burgundy there was a high fog or overcast that didn’t burn off until noon. Perversely, it was cloudy every time we went to a city or town, thwarting my photographic efforts. By the 16th of the month it was definately chilly at night, high 50’s on the Fahrenheit scale. By afternoon it would be in the high 70’s or 80’s. The trees looked like very early fall.
The day we left the boat, Sept 16th, it was definitely fall, spitting rain, windy and chilly. It continued that way the next day as we left Chablis and started driving to Provence. But as we crested the Massif Central range and started dropping down into the Rhone Valley the weather was decidedly different. It was 15 degrees warmer by the time we got to Provence. Our first day in Provence we had thunderstorms and rain squalls but the remainder of the time it was warm and partly cloudy. When we traveled back to Paris we arrived back in the same overcast morning conditions with the chilly nights. We know exactly why all those impressionist painters headed South.
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