Hotel Arion Merignac

... in a certain location and must be handpicked so that only the grapes affected by the fungus are used. This makes the wine very expensive and a basic bottle costs 40 Euros. Chris loved the wine but wasn’t willing to spend that much.

Because of the time of year we visited the vineyards all the grapes have been picked and have already been processed. They are now all in the barrels aging. The amount of barrels depends on how good their harvest ...

... system. A good use of modern technology.

The ceremony was held in both French and English, a paragraph in the first, followed by the translation in the second. So both of them said first “oui” and then “I do”: doubly married! That’s similar to the way my wife and I were married.

After the ceremony finished, we took some photos in doors and out and then had cake and ...

... on the quality of the fruits and vegetables. Things must be just ripe and at their best, not picked a week early for shipment somewhere. As a result the salads and raw vegetables served with vinaigrettes of various kinds are wonderful. I made a meal of the salad bar and was quite content.

After dinner I worked on preparing the sermon I will give tomorrow. And I decided to make an early night of it. As I was working I received a text message from my good friend ...

... Mr. Mrs. Bernal were there too, we had a very enjoyable evening, catching up on news, comparing notes about the recent convention we had in Normandy and planning for the future. French dinner can last quite a while, but several of us were tired from the day's activities so we finished the meal at around 9:00 pm, and went our separate ways; looking forward to meeting again soon.

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Charline et Jeremy

Well, this will be my last entry. I was hoping to have updated more than i did, but i also thought i'd have far more internet than i did! Oh well, i think you've all got a picture of what it was like over here and i'm sad and ready to come back. here's a few more pics to leave you with and i'll be sure to let everyone see all 1,000 pictures we took! See you all soon!

Au revoir!!

We spent our first day in Bordeaux relaxing and wandering around the city. Ate a few baguettes.

The next day we caught a train to St Emilion to check out the beautiful little village.

On our last day we did a wine tour of Medoc ...

Vines, vines, everywhere are vines.
Blockin’ up the scenery, breakin’ my mind.
Rouge vin, blanch, ro-se
Can you taste the wi-ine?

Spent about 3 days cycling through Bordeaux’s beautiful wine-country.

Pulling away from the mouth of the Girone river we entered wine country with a vengeance. Cattle and corn farming drifted away and were ...

... bizarre.

Anyway whilst climbing up one side is probably only 40 metres, once you get carried away and run down the other side to the beach, the climb back up feels a little bit like "Laurence of Arabia"

I had to wait till we reached the bottom before telling the other two i had no cash for ice creams! Might have been lynched!!

... she snuck into my bag. Ania and I enjoyed it for a few days after. Week 5 We are in May now. The day after I came back from Poland, I moved in with Samaria and met Robert - a crazy English bloke;). After another crazy weekend with the La Comptesse crew, it was time to get serious and find a job to finance all this. So I did - teaching English to this little 4year old. Well, this was relative. The position was supposed to be teaching English, but it turned out to be pure ...