Chateau Julie Virsac

... t et Chandon while we celebrated with the newlyweds. Finally about 6:30 things came to an end. Hervé and Helen left for their honeymoon and most of the rest of us were invited to the Bernals’ home for a lasagna dinner. After dinner, Daniel and Cindy Harper showed slides of their recent trip to Thailand which they had very much enjoyed. It was another very pleasant occasion, and a fine end to a wonderful day.

I had needed to get out...

I was starting to get a little antsy with things in Paris...Needless to say, one of my classes are really starting to get on my nerves, and it's not just because of the kids...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaanyways...I went on a whim and bought a ticket to Bordeaux to visit a friend out here.

Get out, get out right now!!!

Bordeaux is really nice (change of scenery). I ...

... on the quality of the fruits and vegetables. Things must be just ripe and at their best, not picked a week early for shipment somewhere. As a result the salads and raw vegetables served with vinaigrettes of various kinds are wonderful. I made a meal of the salad bar and was quite content.

After dinner I worked on preparing the sermon I will give tomorrow. And I decided to make an early night of it. As I was working I received a text message from my good friend ...

This morning I was up and out of the hotel just after sunup for the drive to Charles de Gaulle airport. I arrived with plenty of time, and filled the tank with diesel before turning the car in. The flight to Bordeaux left at 1:10 and arrived on time about 2:30. On our take-off route over Paris, we again had a pretty clear view of the city. The Eiffel Tower is the easiest landmark to ...

un deux un deux test micro j'espère que tout fonctionne!
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Charline et Jeremy

Well, this will be my last entry. I was hoping to have updated more than i did, but i also thought i'd have far more internet than i did! Oh well, i think you've all got a picture of what it was like over here and i'm sad and ready to come back. here's a few more pics to leave you with and i'll be sure to let everyone see all 1,000 pictures we took! See you all soon!

Au revoir!!

We spent our first day in Bordeaux relaxing and wandering around the city. Ate a few baguettes.

The next day we caught a train to St Emilion to check out the beautiful little village.

On our last day we did a wine tour of Medoc ...

... 8217;ll begin to feel alcohol effects.

A few spare grapes spill out of the trucks as they labour down the roads holding up impatient traffic. These make a fun game for the bicycles to see if I can aim to run over the little balls and ‘pop’ out the juice as we go along. But so many are crushed by a multitude of vehicles that the road becomes sticky with ...

... On the walk home, we each took turns reading aloud and Louise pulled out a dictionary to help us with translating once back at La G.

I hung out with Dave, Tracy and their daughter Georgia, played with the dogs and even read Anthony Adverse in the hammock for a while. There were a few sprinkles but that just made an already lovely day more interesting.

... had a few tears this morning saying goodbye to Ed, he's heading on the train for Toulouse eventually to meet up with a friend before he starts at the University of Strasbourg. Ed, I know you'll read this at some stage, so bon chance mon ami et une grande bisou de moi, tu etais super!

And so now, I'll upload my photos for you one more time and probably say goodbye from France. This has been one of the ...