Chateau de Creancey

... walking for a long time while we were waiting for the hospice de Beaune to open.
The hospice was very beautiful. It use to be a place for the sick a very very long time ago and they had a little bed and a place for their clothes. There was also a chapel where they could go to pray. We also saw the old room for the kitchen and pharmacy, there was also a separate area for the nobels when they were sick because they were rich they got ...

... very different to Kingsway. It is a few huge buildings that are about 3 or 4 stories high each. There are 3 sections of the school that have like a courtyard in the middle and the lare building going around the outside, forming a rectangle. It is very difficult to explain but i have attached a couple of pictures. The classrooms are smaller than at my school but there is like a million of them.
When Marie introduced me to her ...

... doesn't lock the toilet door, how was i suppose to know? So i went back to my seat and hid under my blanket and pretended i was sleeping ^_^
After arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport, Danielle and Susan left with some other nacel students to their train terminal. I went with 6 others not long after and we caught the train from where we arrived to a different terminal. This train was only very small because it only travels within the airport and there are only a ...

Yes it is true. We worked our way up to Beaune, and just like in the Rhone, have not been dissapointed at all. We explored the tiny towns of Pommard, Volnay, Mersault, and Satenay, and got to try some amazing wine from all places. We even tried a place in Pommard and then headed over to his son's winery in Mersault (the son's was actually better than his Dad's stuff!) The only word of caution if you come wine tasting ...

... was very nice and explained so many things to us that it was a bit overwhelming at times. I found it very interesting though as he related everything to our 5 senses. I didn't really buy the sound aspect buy the idea of taste (obviously), touch, smell, and sight all play a role in decoding a particular wine. We tested our sense of smell in one room while he discussed the numerous colors wine can take depending on age in another. Along the way we got to taste a few ...

... however those ticket bays looked angrier and more modern, and as I knew it would, wouldn't let me OUT of the metro so I had to wait until someone entered and while the doors were still open get out.
I had about five hours to spend in Paris but I wasn't feeling too well so I went and put my head down in the nearby park, yet it was too cold and windy so I spent the rest of the time in the train station. The bad thing about the French trains is that they won't announce ...

... we moved on. After enjoying such wonderful hospitality, saying goodbye was a real wrench.

14th July 09 Celle 52.37'41"N 10.4'22"E

Gerd had taken us here and it was such an old and picturesque town that we thought we would spend a few days here. When we arrived a huge fair was setting up adjacent to the aire. We were looking forward to it's opening on Friday but, thanks to British motorhome design and our reluctance to spend, had to leave ...

... medieval Phillipean castle and explained the evolution of castle defenses. It was thoroughly enjoyable, though it would have been better had it not been 30+ degrees on the dry and dusty construction site.

After leaving Guedelon, we headed for our home base for the next two nights, the city of Beaune. Beaune is a small city of 25K in the heart of Bungundy. After checking into our hotel, we ventured into ...

... to say the least, but the next thing I knew...

...it was quarter-to-nine, Friday morning! We had blithely planned an early monring kick-off - but so much for bold plans! Still, by 10.15 we had hit a Carrefour supermarket for munchies, filled up with diesel (still seeming delightfully cheap!) and been amused by a regrettably named German coach in the supermarket car park. Soon we were heading south once more.

... town (the official visitor's guide to Dijon, which has owls on the ground pointing you towards the special spots), buying some Dijon mustard, and eating. We then headed back on the train to Zurich for the last couple of days of my trip! (By the way- Parsley family card players- I taught Neera how to play Rummy, and she beats me every time.. she says it is the Accountant in her... I say she isn't allowed to come visit and play cards with us! hehe)