Hotel - Restaurant l'Eclipse Nancy

This is an incredible place...but I don't have any pictures... when I got there my camera stopped working :( But I really think it was a blessing because I just saw everything and didn't worry about getting pictures of everything for later, I just saw and took it all in. It was a much needed get-away and it really blew me away, especially the Cathedral! Mass there was unbelievable...and I have a new-found love of French...and their pastries :)

... King version of Super Size Me!

We arrived at our hotel in Metz and spokilly enough Rick has been here before. we booked in and then we were confronted with the tasteful decor in the room. I was worried for a nano second that this had been planned and Rick was going to tell me something but thankfully this did not happen.

It was then that we carried on with tradition and headed off to the bar for a beer on the terrace.

Regards

Baz

... nice to see him and his family again. Fantastic lunch and same goes for the company. As all good things have to end we parted around 4 pm to go back to my brother's place for ... you guessed it another reunion with a childhood friend, Agnes what can I say... she will never change. Love her to bits even though she is a little mad (in a nice way)

... signs for 10km laughing about what it could be ... probably nothing more than a pile of rubbles. To our amazement after a pleasant drive, there they were... an amphitheatre and its dependences. We went back to Pont-Saint Vincent at the end of the afternoon for a pleasant dinner with my family.

... went to Berlin's highest building. The lift to get to the top took 40 seconds and you could feel your ears pressurize as you got higher. From there we got bike taxis and went to the scary museum. It was the first time I saw my dad nearly **** his pants. We then walked to checkpoint Charlie. This was a lot more amped up and it was not what I thought it was going to be. But it was still nice to go too.

Day 9We caught a tour bus around Berlin today. Our ...

Got up around 7 am and got to the restaurant for breakfast. Typical French fare with "croissants plain and chocolate, bread, butter and jam" and the great taste of coffee with the addition of chicory to take off the bitterness. After "mon petit dejeuner" I took some goodies (unfortunately I will have to repeat this over the next few days) to Margaret and the kids so we could all a bite to eat together. After about an hour we decided on the program of the day and were going ...

... different dishware, etc... We also went into a store completely littered with jewelry. It covered the walls, there were shelves and shelves of jewelry, and then revolving things with jewelry too. I've never seen so much jewelry in one place. And then, of course, there are the French bakeries and chocolate shops to drool over. It was a great excursion and Liz and I both wished we would have had more time to spend in Nancy. By the ...

... scenery, snapping tons of pics and yes, eating excellent food. We both have to admit that although we're now in excellent cardiovascular shape and have the strongest of legs, our general "silhouette" has changed a lot less than we would have liked!! Oh well, there are always the bikes when we get home (and lots of crunches). Famous stores in Nancy include not only the Bergamotte candy store (the name escapes me at the ...

Our first exciting barge experience was attending Roger Van Dyken's Barge training course.



Roger and Marlene took three couples, Laurel and I, Brad and Nancy and Steve and Pei Shan (interestingly we have now all bought barges!) and with much patience and good grace taught us all how to run a barge. We left from Toul in Lorraine ...

... de Nancy poiur le reste de mon temps dans l'armée. (A Pont St. Vincent) C'était un camp d'entrainement commando oú militaires d'europe, américains basés en allemagne et aussi la légion étrangére venaient pour étre entrainés pendant 3 mois.