Approaching AVALLON along the N6 from the north, you wouldn't give the place a second look. But the southern aspect is altogether more promising, as the town stands high on a ridge above the wooded valley of the River Cousin, looking out over the hilly, sparsely populated country of the Morvan regional park. Once a staging post on the Romans' Via Agrippa from Lyon to Boulogne on the Channel coast, it is a small and ancient town of stone facades and comatose ... [More]