Hostellerie Saint Vincent Nuits-Saint-Georges

... 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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... told me that she had seen some there but until now I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes. It was so neat! Before lunch we wanted to check out Hotel Dieu. While the town was suffering from the plague a man and his wife became patrons of Hotel Dieu in order to house and take care of those who were suffering. We were able to see the lodgings which were attached to a chapel since faith was a huge part in the survival of the people of Beaune. We also got to see the kitchen ...

... platform until 15 minutes before and my train was very long, it took almost five minites to get to the last carriage. It was the secnd TGV train I have been on (the first was from Luxembourg to Paris. They are the fastest trains in the world. I have been told that the most recent trial had the train travelling faster than a plane (however the rails couldn't handle it).
From Paris to Dijon it only tok an hour and a half, the Ice trains in Germany would have taken at least ...

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 ...

... There we met a lovely French/Hungarian family (Attila makes a point of talking to everyone he hears speaking Hungarian... except in Hungary, of course). The gentleman was from France and spoke English so he helped by clarifying what the extremely-fast-speaking tour guide was showing us.

After leaving the castle we finished our drive through the vinyards of Burgundy and headed back to Beaune for dinner.

The journey from Dunkirk went well. Soon we were on the A25 to Lille and soon enough after on the A26 to Reims; the miles smoothed away. We stopped occasionally at services - which the French do better than anyone else - and came off the motorway for a short while at Chalons en Champagne to fill up more cheaply. This little excursion was made especially interesting by a brief attempt on my part to drive on the left - it ...

... are on a corporate week." "You'll want our most expensive champagne then sir." "Yes, yes we will." --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- 12:34 A.M., January 20, The Cap Horn Restaurant, Courcheval 1850, France --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- "How is everything sir?" "Delicious, everything is great." "Would you like some more champagne?" "Yes, yes we would ...