Barge Hotel La Reine Pedauque Dijon
Port du Canal Dijon, Burgundy, 21000, France
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Les Trois Glorieuses
... bassist were the highlights for us. Joni also liked the drummer’s performing. Saxophones were OK but a bit pitchy at times. Still, a fun time and good music.
Sunday saw us up early and back in Beaune. The first event on our schedule was a parade from the church (after mass) to the town square. It featured a procession of officials from the festival- complete with a statue of St. Vincent, the ...
Back To School and Armistice Day
... have noticed that most French towns have German sister cities.
There is no school here on Armistice Day, and the memory of two world wars looms large. As we drive or hike through small towns, we can’t help but think of all of the war movies we’ve seen, with American GIs carefully entering small French villages searching for and fearing the enemy. As we hike through the woods, we think about the resistance fighters who ...
Differences
... it – wine). The silverware will be brought out on a plate and will be placed rather ceremoniously in front of you. After that course, everything is taken away. Then, before the main course, they bring out another plate of silverware and give you what is appropriate for your meal (a different knife if you order fish, a different one for steak, a different one for chicken). Before dessert the whole thing starts again, except that this ...
“Crème de Cassis” & Signage
Today (Saturday) was a beautiful fall day- partly sunny and high in the 60s. We took a drive over to a couple of towns we had not yet visited- Couches (to attend an antique market) and Epinac. The rolling countryside around Burgundy provided us with new views of the vines or manicured pastures with the white beef cattle (Charolais) that they raise around these parts. At one point, Joni started singing one of the themes from Beethoven's ...
Paris Visit and a little bit more…
... 8217;t found for two days. No thanks.
We also visited the Grand Palais, which is a beautiful glass-topped building, built for the Paris World Fair in 1897. It is now a building that houses temporary exhibitions. We were in luck: there was an exhibition of the art collected by Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo. I knew that she had been an art collector, but had no idea that she had a collection like this. We saw ...

