Hotel Du Stade Dijon
3 Boulevard de Strasbourg Dijon, Burgundy, France
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Les Trois Glorieuses
... out to arrive in the center of Meursault at around that time so we could get prime spots to watch the runners. As you can see from our pictures, we need not have been worried.
The first two runners came through around 2:30. They looked like they had not even broken a sweat in the first 10K of the race. We applauded for them and each successive small group as came by. Then more runners started to ...
Back To School and Armistice Day
Before we left for France, one of my teachers at the Alliance Française wrote a letter of introduction for me. I wanted to see about volunteering in a school, and since that isn't really done here, she had suggested that I bring her letter to the school as a character reference. I went to the local school about four weeks ago, letter in hand.
The school in town is called "La Goutte d’Or", which means “a drop of ...
Differences
... as does the one I have at home. There is no clothes dryer, so I hang everything out, which is the norm here. We have a really cool apparatus to use for drying, which folds up and goes in the closet when it isn’t in use. You see them everywhere. However, the first time I did laundry here, I wasn’t patient, and since I couldn’t believe it could possible take so long, I started moving dials around. Everything started ...
“Crème de Cassis” & Signage
... juice is then fermented in large tanks followed by oak barrels. As with wine, the French have turned this into big business with many varying degrees of Crème de Cassis quality control. You can get regular Cassis, SuperCassis, SuperDuperCassis, etc.
Many of the drinks made with Cassis contain the word “Kir” in them after Felix Kir. Felix Kir was a resistance fighter against the Germans during WWII. He later became Mayor ...
Paris Visit and a little bit more…
... walk through Luxembourg Gardens, and then we were on our way back to Meursault (while the Olsons were on their way back to Minnesota).
The weather here is changing. The hillsides are beautiful with gold (C******nay) and red (Pinot) leaves in the vineyards. Chip and I have both purchased sweaters and today at the grocery store we picked up some instant hot chocolate. The heat is on in the chateau, but tonight we talked ...



