Today started in true country style, with Sarah baking bread overnight and Albon collecting some milk fresh from this morning's milking.

We then had a look around the farm and at some of the recently born calves before returning home for breakfast.

After breakfast, the boys asked if we could play the Cluedo board game (interesting that the boys read a lot and like board games but hardly watch any TV these days). So although I'd heard of this game from many years ago, I'd never played it. But never too old to learn. However, before I'd really understood what I was doing, Sarah (who had played the game since she was a kid) had wiped the floor with us.

We then decided to pack a picnic lunch and head a bit north to some caves and swimming hole in another Reculee near Arbois. Given that we didn't get to see the caves at Baume yesterday, we were happy that one of Sarah & Albon's favourite places for guests were the caves at Moidons. We arrived there at 1214h, which was perfectly timed for the next guided tour at 1215h. These caves were only discovered in 1966 by a local farmer and his son, even though the caves themsleves are probably millions of years old. As you walk down a new entrance ramp to the caves, you can feel the temperature changing dramatically. A great place to go on a hot day! The first thing that impressed me was the size of the main cave; 80m long by 40m wide by 15m high. Quite a hole under the ground! And the stalactite and stalagmite formations were quite stunning.

The tour lasted about an hour, and finished with a light-show in one of the deepest parts of the cave. And then we had to face the music as we emerged out of the cave and re-entered the heat! But we found a shady table for lunch and then had half an hour's sleep on the grass before heading off on the next part of the trip towards Arbois. As we followed Sarah, she quickly pulled off the road into a little parking area, and we followed. She explained that there was a good view here of the Reculee that we were heading towards. Apparently, the cascade was at the foot of the cliff on the left, just to the left of field in the middle of the picture. I was more interested in the "slot" cut into the mountain on the left.

I was soon to see the reason for the slot, and we wove our way down and through the mountain.

As we reached the bottom of the hill, we entered the village of Les Planches Près Arboir and parked near the private hotel, Castel Damandre. Sarah told us that she knew a shady walk up to the Cascade des Tufs, but that it meant going through the grounds of the Castel. So we followed her, after she explained to the groundsman that she just wanted to show her overseas friends the pond behind the Castel. We looked at the pond and then continued out the other side of the Castel and up the shady path along the Cuisance stream.

On reaching the top of this stream we found that it was coming out of the pools formed under the Cascade des Tufs. This was very similar to what we saw yesterday at Baume, but with much more water. It was a very popular swimming hole.

Despite the water being no warmer than in yesterday's stream, Sarah, Rita and the two boys were soon in the water enjoying themselves.while I was checking the World Cup Cricket scores where England was surpringly beating India.

But the day was moving on, and Albon soon had to return to Besain to do the afternoon milking of the cows, so we said goodbye to them at the carpark and while they returned home, Rita and I headed on the town of Arbois. Here we stopped for a look around and a cool drink, while watching the many and varied American cars (Chevys, Stringrays etc) returning home after a local drag-racing meeting. We then took the local roads back to Auxonne via Dole. It was still hot when we got back to the boat (34 deg), but as the evening progressed it cooled, and thunder and lightning in the south held the promise of some rain (which never reached Auxonne).