Chateau de Flammerans

... i had my drama lesson again and took the bus both there and back by myself ... i'm growing up! =) Drama is good and although i dont understand very much the people are very nice and it's fun.
Now i've seem to have forgotten what i did the rest of the time during that week but the last thing i did was on Friday i packed for my amazing trip to Paris ... which i will write about some time soon i promise!!
love you all xx

... couscous and so i didnt eat very much and was hungry later >.<
On the way back from school me and Marie stopped at a cute patisserie and bought pain du chocolate (aka chocolate bread) ^^ and it was very very good =)
Today school only went until 12 and so i only had an hour of each class of spanish (i understand nothing!) english (i p0wn haha kinda, the teacher also asked me to talk about australia to the class in a couple of ...

... and the language is indead frustrating. The food is also very different and i prefer Australian food .
Today i visited the musee de beaux arts. It was very beautiful and it had paintings and sculptures of Jesus, mary and different saints. Marie's mum got me a headset so that i could listen to the information in english =) i felt like such a tourist.
After we took a walk through the streets of Dijon. The buildings and the streets are all old and very beautiful.There ...

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 ...

... to Beaune we had a 3 hour car ride ahead of us. I tried to stay awake and look over some school notes but that was doing more harm than good as did my magazine so I ended up falling asleep. I woke up with around 30 minutes until our destination, at least thats what the GPS told us. We were on the highway so the parts of the 'countryside' that I saw seemed pretty bleak and boring, just like driving the Florida turnpike in some areas.

We reached our destination ...

... hours.
I got to Dijon at about 1840. My guidebook said the tourist office would be open until 1900 so I could get a map but it closed at 1830. Luckily I had copied down the directions to the hostel from the internet just in case. I had to take two buses. However, the second bus' monitor wasn't working and it was only by chance that I turned to look at the name of the next stop which I thought was mine, and so got out. Lucky I did though because I found that the bus ...

... houses a zoo, aquarium, and several museums.

We just ventured to Lausanne and Montreux on Lake Geneva. HUGE Lake! Chateau de Chillon is the best castle in Switzerland…so the Swiss say. It is very interesting. As they build it on a mountain of rock right in the lake. Lord Byron , English poet , wrote the Prisoner of Chillon which ...

... a massive fortress at the top of the hill of course. It now houses various concerns including a zoo with wallabies. We looked at the history of the citadel..all about war/defence and also a history of the resistance in France in WW2. That was one of the most sobering and comprehensive collections either of us have ever seen and we have been talking about it since.
After that we headed up to Kayserburg another beautiful village but more ...

... I was persuaded to stay although it was way too early. Its an odd place, you camp in the garden, the actual business is renting out indoor tennis courts in a huge barn with an associated bar. However the campsite is another way of using the facilities. As there's a local tennis tournament on at the time it has a really nice friendly feel. I can get a beer as soon as I'm signed in; excellent. Meanwhile the locals are dropping by and being really ...

... then most british put together. (that would be a big person) She's also amazingly strong and moves more logs than a canadian lumberjack. A little nutty. okay these pistachio shells are getting everywhere so hold on a moment. Now there is Simon who enjoys urban skating and snowboarding?? Make any sense yet?? He's also a very good chef and enjoys bringing home his labouring love to our character chalet and there is always chocolate cake, cinnamon and apple cake and cookies ...