Ermitage Corton Beaune
Challanges, 21200 Chorey Beaune, Burgundy, France
Travel Blogs Nearby
Les Trois Glorieuses
... bassist were the highlights for us. Joni also liked the drummer’s performing. Saxophones were OK but a bit pitchy at times. Still, a fun time and good music.
Sunday saw us up early and back in Beaune. The first event on our schedule was a parade from the church (after mass) to the town square. It featured a procession of officials from the festival- complete with a statue of St. Vincent, the ...
Back To School and Armistice Day
... 8220;How do you keep people from breaking in?” one of the little boys asked. Also, having a grass lawn is a strange concept in this community – instead, they have gravel courtyards. I told them about Thanksgiving, and that we always eat pumpkin pie on that holiday, and they started laughing and talking. "Pumpkin pie is for SOUP, not dessert!" Silly me. What they got the most excited about, however, was the picture I showed them ...
Differences
... all. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It is quite moving going to church in a large Gothic structure from the fifteenth century. They have a wonderful organ (a Mutin & Cavallé-Coll, if that means anything to you), and the resonance in the space is gorgeous. Except for the language, and for the fact that I don’t attend Catholic Mass at home, things all seem pretty much the same as in an American ...
“Crème de Cassis” & Signage
... br>
2- Academy of Beer- Now here’s a school I can heartily endorse!
3- “Beaune” headline in “Le Bein Public” newspaper- Some headlines know no boundaries.
4- Bar with bad English-ized pun in name- Wonder why they’re out of business? ...
Paris Visit and a little bit more…
... mass graves. Disease was spreading, and it was decided to move all of the bones from the cemeteries of Paris into these underground quarries.
This was all done after dark with solemn ceremony, and the bones were organized in the catacombs according to the cemetery they came from. Bones were placed there until 1814. By the way, in July three inebriated visitors got lost down there (which you would really have to do on purpose) ...



