Hotel Le Mont Melian Meursault

... the New Zealand girls was in France teaching English.
After the hospice we had forgotten where we had left the car and so we had to ask someone where the arc de triumph was and it turns out they were Australian!!! So then she explained the directions to me in English and told me that she was in France teaching English as an language teacher's assistant. She was from Sydeny and before we left said that it was good to hear the accent ...

... couscous and so i didnt eat very much and was hungry later >.<
On the way back from school me and Marie stopped at a cute patisserie and bought pain du chocolate (aka chocolate bread) ^^ and it was very very good =)
Today school only went until 12 and so i only had an hour of each class of spanish (i understand nothing!) english (i p0wn haha kinda, the teacher also asked me to talk about australia to the class in a couple of ...

... and the language is indead frustrating. The food is also very different and i prefer Australian food .
Today i visited the musee de beaux arts. It was very beautiful and it had paintings and sculptures of Jesus, mary and different saints. Marie's mum got me a headset so that i could listen to the information in english =) i felt like such a tourist.
After we took a walk through the streets of Dijon. The buildings and the streets are all old and very beautiful.There ...

... 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 ...

... We slept in the next morning since we had a late night watching football and check out wasn't until 11am. Breakfast was served starting at 9am though so I was downstairs at 9:15am. I was very hungry and they must have known because the breakfast buffet was loaded down with everything, toast, croissants, pastries, cereal, coffee, milk, juice, and Nutella! I even went back for seconds. At breakfast we discussed what we wanted to do that day and with the 3 hour drive ahead ...

... 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 ...

... so we rode in. Pastis and a (small) glass of rose for 2.20eu. Bit of a difference to Troyes where we were charged 8.10eu for a beer and a cold cafe au lait.
The site is fre but requires tokens for electricity (3eu for 1 hour) and water (3eu for 100 litres).This is pricey by French standards (the usual charge for 100ltrs of water - where not free - being no more than 1eu) but not too bad for such an attractive site.
One novelty spotted - a large BMW ...

... kitchen and pharmacy, all run by nuns.

After touring the hospice, we did a little shopping (OK, I did a little shopping and Attila did a little waiting). In trying to pay for my purchase, I discovered a compatibilty probelm with the chip in my Visa. Apparently France hasbeen using the chip for quite some time and some of the readers are not compatible with our new chips in North America. Anyway, it ...

... to say the least, but the next thing I knew...

...it was quarter-to-nine, Friday morning! We had blithely planned an early monring kick-off - but so much for bold plans! Still, by 10.15 we had hit a Carrefour supermarket for munchies, filled up with diesel (still seeming delightfully cheap!) and been amused by a regrettably named German coach in the supermarket car park. Soon we were heading south once more.

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