Paris-Orly (LFPO) → Challanges (LFGF).
POI’s:
Camera angles are a nice thing to play with - doesn’t it seem as if the plane is still climbing? Anyways, this (first) shot was taken not long after leaving Paris near Montereau-Fault-Yonne (lit. “Montereau at the Yonne Estuary”).
As our trip took us across mostly rural areas in Central France there weren’t a lot of towns or cities to look at, mostly fields and forests. An exception was Auxerre in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France.
To give you a good impression of the beautiful-yet-uniform terrain we had to cross I took a shot near our destination airfield of Challanges. The small village to the right is called Meloisey and it even has its own Wikipedia page, stating that it is home to a 12th century church!
Small fact:
Did you know that Montereau-Fault-Yonne played an infamous part in the 15th century civil war between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in France? John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy was lured under the pretense of a parlay onto the local Seine bridge, where the companions of the French king literally stabbed him in the back.