Hotel De Paris Dijon

... and she wants me to prepare i think shes expecting a fully structured presentation) and philosophy (which is a snooze fest).
Then i came home a skyped my family which was nice but also a sad reminder of what i miss.
Then Marie took me to a drama lesson. I didn't understand very much of the French but i could understand what the teacher wanted me to do. I participated for a majority of it, mainly in the tableaues (because they are ...

... me awhile to right because my english has decreased already. When i am spoken to in english obviously it does not sound perfect and so now i have found myself copying that, which is not very good at all!)
The train ride from Paris to Dijon took 2 hours and it felt long. For most of it i looked out the window at the countryside. Which is very beautiful in France, it is so green and there are houses scattered everywhere. On the way i also passed Disneyland ^_^
When i ...

... 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.

... number of 'across the streets'. She should have said to the left and down the street.
Again the next morning I did the same thing, but now line 7 wasnt working so I couldnt get back to the centre so I was going to go down the street and catch line 15 but there was a whole heap of construction work which meant that stop wasn't in service. So I gave up on the buses and used each stop's very dodgy bus route maps to find my way, whereupon I finally arrived at the tourist office.

... 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

27th July 09, Precy-Sous-Thil 47.23'06"N 4.18'37"E
An 'Experimentale' aire, whatever one of those is. No facilities but a peaceful overnight stop.

28th July 09, BEAUNE - at last.

... a normal seat for most of the trip until I catched my second train in Lyon to go back up to Dijon, which on that train I had a normal seat in second class. I arrived in Dijon when it was fairly dark and I was forced to take a taxi back because it was the holidays and the buses weren't running, but I was okay with that. When I arrived back to the dorm, all I pretty much did was eat my sandwich, called up my mother ...

The home of good mustards was our next stop. It was an early train ride in from Bern to Dijon and we actually had to pay for it because it was a high speed train and in France they hit you up for a 5-8 Euro reservation fee for any TGV trains. You save a little time but we would rather travel for free. Anyways, we stayed at a budget hotel in Dijon which was pretty nice. We have had lots of people in our room and no privacy the past couple of weeks so ...

... in road signs. Back were the 'Marie', or Mayors offices of the villages and towns - an unmistakably a French thing. Mayors offices are an odd thing, all towns and cities have one and most tiny villages have one too. They are a centre of community, a place for coordination of activities, a good idea but a perfect nest for bureaucracy and power building. I have stayed in villages that have no baker, butcher, post - nothing, except a ...

Yet another delightful hostel featuring a vast array of mould clinging to the walls! Mmm, France. Three nights was probably two too long in this hostel and this city. A small place with little to see apart from the cobbled ...