Two days ago summer arrived in Burgundy. We headed out to visit the steep limestone slopes of Solutré-Pouilly. This was an area first inhabited around 52,000 years ago by Crog-Manon people of the Mousterian era. They hunted bison, aurochs and mammoths which populated the valleys and slopes.

We walked the path to the top of the fossilised coral outcrop. The shape of the hill reminded us of Roseberry Topping in North Yorkshire. We sat on the summit with only gorgeous butterflies for company. The countryside today is covered in vineyards of the Mâconnais.