Campanile Dijon

... really got what, but it all tasted good.<br><br>Our trip to Burgundy would not be complete without a stop in Nuit-St. George, where we again employed the "look for the sign of whoever is open" tactic and were not dissapointed. We got to try some excellent Pinot, C******nay, and even some Aligote (a white that they mix with Creme de Cassis for an aperitif) from some of the local producers. <br>Now its up to Champagne!

... just an hour before. We found a place on the square that was pretty cheap and dived in. After lunch we walked in and out of a few wine shops. Soon we found ourselves in a wine tasting cave/shop. It was only 10 euro and you got a wine tasting cup and got to taste 15 different wines!! Whoohoo! We spent the majority of the rest of the afternoon there putting the skills we had learned that morning to use. There was nobody really monitoring our intake but in order to get ...

... platform until 15 minutes before and my train was very long, it took almost five minites to get to the last carriage. It was the secnd TGV train I have been on (the first was from Luxembourg to Paris. They are the fastest trains in the world. I have been told that the most recent trial had the train travelling faster than a plane (however the rails couldn't handle it). <br>From Paris to Dijon it only tok an hour and a half, the Ice trains in Germany would have taken at least ...

... so we rode in. Pastis and a (small) glass of rose for 2.20eu. Bit of a difference to Troyes where we were charged 8.10eu for a beer and a cold cafe au lait.<br>The site is fre but requires tokens for electricity (3eu for 1 hour) and water (3eu for 100 litres).This is pricey by French standards (the usual charge for 100ltrs of water - where not free - being no more than 1eu) but not too bad for such an attractive site.<br>One novelty spotted - a large BMW ...

After an inauspisious start to the proceeding and having reached Calais in the wee small hours, a few precious hours of much needed sleep were had before it was back in the pooper and the start of the longest part of the journey. As three weary heads hit the pillow it wasn't long before the beast of Basingstoke began its strange mating call. Grunting and snorting with a deep vibrating burr, Rich released his inner monster much to the surprise and ...

The journey from Dunkirk went well. Soon we were on the A25 to Lille and soon enough after on the A26 to Reims; the miles smoothed away. We stopped occasionally at services - which the French do better than anyone else - and came off the motorway for a short while at Chalons en Champagne to fill up more cheaply. This little excursion was made especially interesting by a brief attempt on my part to drive on the left - it ...

... envers les touristes : en plus d'un circuit touristique clair et bien défini (parcours des chouettes, trois bureaux de tourisme faciles à situer, personnel compétent et sympathique) et de l'existence d'une navette gratuite de la Divia qui parcourt en rond la vieille ville et passe aux arrêts toutes les six minutes, les musées de Dijon sont gratuits, dont celui-ci, que je m'apprête à visiter. Excellente façon de faire ! Je profite d'une présentation intéressante et d'une très bonne ...

... Info qui n'en finit plus de s'effaroucher des méthodes "anti-démocratiques", quand franchement pas "terroristes" des grévistes... m'enfin, on en meurt pas, "if it was easy they would not call it a fight", et d'entendre vos speachs de 2 ans et demi après, mieux ficelés et bien tournés (je pense à la vidéo d'étienne qui arrangue la foule), de vous imaginer dans la tourmente, je vois des forces qui se sont construites tranquillement et qui sont prêtes ...

... is that there is a lot of street food, sadly most of it isn't good for you, but it's cheap and it's local traditional food, so it's not a bad idea....but of course, it's not that good for your health to eat a bunch of junk food all day long like waffles, french fries, escargot, beer and chocolate, so see if you can find something else, but what you could do is get a plain waffle for breakfast and eat it really late, and then either go to a grocery store and get like a ...

... instead of teaching. Grr... On the other hand, Professor Saint-Denis, who is a prof here at the Universite de Bourgogne, is fabulous! He prepares great powerpoints and speaks slowly, clearly, and pointedly, so we all understand plus we cover a lot of information. I'm learning all about the different architectural styles from the "moyen age classique." I don't have too ...