City Loft Hotel Dijon

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 ...

... We slept in the next morning since we had a late night watching football and check out wasn't until 11am. Breakfast was served starting at 9am though so I was downstairs at 9:15am. I was very hungry and they must have known because the breakfast buffet was loaded down with everything, toast, croissants, pastries, cereal, coffee, milk, juice, and Nutella! I even went back for seconds. At breakfast we discussed what we wanted to do that day and with the 3 hour drive ahead ...

I only stayed for one night here because there was nothing in particular that I wanted to see, I just came to see what it was like. I caught the train back to Paris and had to use a different train station because Paris has several, all of which have trains going to certain places. My metro ticket should have expired but the other morning it had worked so I tried it again. After a couple of goes it was accepted, Yes! Machines can be foiled, and then 'stole' my way to Gare De ...

... the next hour (this was late afternoon) two more vans had stopped. One also collected three cases whilst the other settled on one case. So much for our poor single bottle.... Chablis is, of course, lovely but mainly very expensive hotels, restaurants and bars<br><br>27th July 09, Precy-Sous-Thil 47.23'06"N 4.18'37"E<br>An 'Experimentale' aire, whatever one of those is. No facilities but a peaceful overnight stop.<br><br>28th July 09, BEAUNE - at last.<br><br>

... and the pooper was glad to cooldown.<br><br>5.45pm and we arrived at the Chathole F1 in Dijon, checked in and on requesting some towels were presented with 3 travel size kleenex, that weren't going to cover anyone's modesty especially Python Foster. Richard used his dancing shoes and suggested that we visited the Ikea that we passed just down the road to procure the said python covering towels, although Kev did say that he would be happy with a ...

... which was lit up quite spookily. Beaune is a place we would definitely like to come back to and to explore properly. <br><br>We only had time to walk around a small part of the town, but it seemed quite sleepy: the bars were closing up at about 10.30pm. We trooped back to the campsite and had a late beer sat by the Bongo. Toppling into the van to sleep we were both shocked at how warm it still was - sleep seemed ...

Day 1 Caught the train to Dijon and caught the free bus to our hotel. After we settled in, we went to explore the town. Went to buy some goods from Sephora, and wandered through Galleries Lafayette. Had dinner at an Italian restaurant, which was the only thing we could find which was open. I had Spaghetti Napolitana and Mr S a 4 cheese penne. Day 2 Got up and walked to a local bakery, where I bought a cheese tart, which was HORRIBLE. So ...

... que moins on est fort plus on se fait matraquer, que plus on se fait matraquer moins on est fort, qu'il faut donc bouger ensemble et récolter les forces nécessaires à en accumuler d'autres, et ainsi de suite. On fait remarquer dans les corridors que toutes les forces accumulées servent principalement à se conserver elle-même, que plusieurs maisons se perdent dans la lutte pour la survie, que "squat" est un pansement comme un autre. Certaines bonnes ...

... or the Netherlands. A train or bus ride from Paris to Brussels is like 3-4 hours; the train can be expensive but I guess if you have the Eurail pass, but I don't like the idea of the Eurail pass because it's very expensive, and you still have to pay for your tickets after paying all that money for the pass, and also depending on where you want to go, you might have a lot of complicated connections...to me it's a waste of money. But if that's what you prefer, go for it ...

Bonjour Mes Amis!! I am so glad to be able to write to you all! Not having easy internet access has been a major point of frustration for me the past few days...I've been journaling on my computer to keep up, so here are my thoughts from the past few days. Courtney and I have gone to great lengths to find a way to connect, and finally, I stole a password for the cute Austrian boy down the hall so I can use the on-campus WiFi. Friday The journey here went as well as ...