Short VFR trip to LFSE, nice place near the river Mosel

As the temperatures are telling it’s summer every day we were looking for a place to fly with water nearby. Suddenly Jane mentioned that we have never have been at Epinal although we are overflying the fix several times a year on the way to Brittany. And as Épinal is located on the French Moselle we decided to make a short day trip to visit the town.
The airfield near the town is Dogneville (LFSE). It’s a short grasstrip with 710 meters, so nice to visit with the Bonanza.
We departed at 10 local time and crossed the Black Forest and the Vogeses below the clouds.

As usual on Saturdays no restricted areas where active it was flying the straight magenta line.
After landing we followed a way between the Mosel and the canal direct to Épinal. 5 kilometers from the field to the center, always along the water, beautiful.




The old town is not to big, but there are some nice buildings, so it is worth to stroll around a bit.





Finally we had lunch, as usual in France for about 2,5 hours and it was excellent. I forgot to make pictures, but the restaurant is mentioned in the Gault Millau, so you may understand why. Focus was on the meal not on Instagram.
After that we went back to the plane, but made a stop on the river to take a bath. More then one hour and for the whole time, we have been alone.



On the way back to EDDS the controller asked me nearly on the border of the TMA “In case of a straight in approach would you be able to maintain the speed?”. I love the EDDS controllers. I got the straight in as an high speed approach and a nice day ended with a nice landing.