De France Et Terminus Beaune

... There were a lot of vinyards beacause obviously France and the region of Burgundy is famous for wine. Each little town had vinyards around it and Natacha was telling me which wines were very good and how some plants right next door produced not such good wine.
When we arrived in Beaune we first had a hot drink (chocolate chaud pour moi ^^) and then we took a walk around the small town centre. We ate lunch a little later and kept ...

... 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 ...

... is that everything closes for lunch from 12 to 2. They are serious on their lunchtime here, and when its raining and there's not much sightseeing to do in the small towns, well, lets just say we were lucky to have enough wine to get us through it. We also tried a proper french dinner in the town of Beaune, a 4 course meal for 12 Euros. Caity got Rabbit and Tom got Veal, or so we thought. We still aren't sure ...

... station we could understand that played the same few songs every hour. I was very happy to finally be back in Paris and riding the metro home! I don't think I will be making any road trips any time soon.

Beaune was a beautiful city despite the weather and I would highly recommend to anyone thinking about traveling abroad to take a day or two and see the country instead of staying put in a city. Its not always the easiest option but definitely a different experience.

... 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 ...

13th July 09

Neinburg Weser

After a delightful week with my cousin Marilys and her husband Gerd at their lovely home in niemburg being shown places we would never have found without them - the painted church at Marklohe where Gerd had been Pastor, the great stone at Staatsforst Krahe, the palace at Celle, the blueberry (hfarm and cafe at Brokeloh where we enjoyed the unlikely combination of a type of potato rosti/pancake with blueberry sauce ...

... technology is not as easy as they would have you believe. Summary of the weather today cold, wet and grey - moving south tomorrow. Yet another charming hostess with a beautiful home (Les Hetres Rouges). Actually even tastier confiture was on offer with Julien Clerc playing in the background. Into Beaune, which like all of France so far, is shut.So, in the freezing cold and rain, decided to take a drive out to Mersault for lunch. Stooped off at a working man's ...

... beer-drinkers course for how to not look like an idiot in Burgundy. Our instructor was patient with us, though some of her ridiculing chortles were uncorked by our most absurd remarks, such as asking about wines from the region of Beaujolais, which are made from inferior grapes. Most of the time, though, she did all of the questioning. And in reality, we did learn a lot, especially the naming process. Burgundy only comprises about five percent of France and is formed by five ...

... an expletive uttered in sheer disbelief and then I offered, "What a small world! How are you guys?" As David drove off, we thoroughly covered the various angles of the 'small world' principle. Then Jill and Andrew brought me up-to-speed on their trip since we'd last seen each other. I did the same and talk soon turned to the day's adventure ahead. David informed us that we would be visiting three different domaines, touring their cellars and tasting around 20 wines, both red and ...