Urane whispers to me and I wake up, she wants to share my bed before I go, and I want to say thank you to Nathalie. So I start my day at 5am with tea with Nathalie, I will sure miss their friendliness and company. After Nathalie leaves Urane and I head back to bed for 2 hours. I get up, pack, call Ray for his birthday and my phone card dies so I...

We read a lot online and heard that people really didn't like Bordeaux but we decided to come for a night anyways to see for ourselves. We are very glad we did. We aren't quiet sure what people don't like about this town. Is it the clean, tree lined streets, the old cobblestone alleyways, or maybe it is the restaurants that are filled with beaut...

Yesterday evening I arrived in BOrdeaux, on the west coast of France. Its a lovely little city, almost like a smaller version of Paris. Most of the few tourist here are off taking tours of vineyards so it is quite quiet around the town. Bordeaux is known for their wines but unfortunately I am not a wine drinker so it wouldn't taste very differen...

Well, Friday night was pretty interesting. The dock near our beach house was set on fire by a bunch of people on ships off the coast, who were yelling something and playing drums. We weren't sure at first what it was and someone thought that they might be gypsies attacking the beach. Anyways, they eventually dispersed, and helicopters with spotl...