Hotel Stars Beaune

... 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 ...

... Passion" of this trip. Barely had we rolled to a halt at the Domaine Michel Guitton when a lady of the establishment was out to meet and greet with the offer of a 'degustation'. We accepted and, once inside, were presented with a list. First was Petit Chablis at 8eu a bottle. Next was Chablis at 10eu followed by three others going over the 30eu mark. We asked to sample the 10eu bottle, duly produced from a cool box. very nice, we said - we'll have a ...

... town in search of dinner. Although the Bungundian cuisine was tempting, the sticker price of 25 Euro was enough to detour us. We instead found a lovely little Pizzeria with a cozy terrace, yummy food, and reasonable prices.

The next morning, we walked into town to visit the hospital, "Hotel Dieu". It is actually a medieval hospice, but they use the word "hospital" so as not to turn off any skittish ...

... impressive
88 mph while the temperature guage registered - Gobi desert. Despite being ridden hard the
old girl took everything Kev could throw at her leaving him spent but happy.
Somewhere along the way a turning was missed and an extra hundred km's were added to the
journey. So we thought we knew better than Dashboard Doris and decided to go native and
head across country. Turns out that Doris is a smug cow but we did see some lovely ...

... easy enough to get this right on the motorways, ********* junctions of smaller roads! But the mistake lasted only a few seconds and the surprised French driver who alerted us to the mistake was really nice about it, slowing down gently as I eased (well, lurched) to the right side of the road, and not even offering a corrective beep - very polite indeed in the circumstances.

The last stretch of our day's journey ...

... we were informed that there were only eight rooms open. Only two people were allowed to stay in each room, and the man was not budging. Thirty minutes later we had managed to get him to open up another room and let us have three girls in one of the rooms. He actually was very nice and kept calling his manager to work out the situation so that we could all get what we wanted. By twelve thirty or so we finally got to brush our teeth and hit the sack.

Wine... Wine... Wine... More wine... Wine... Oh and we can't forget wine. Beaune is the heart of the Burgundy wine region. Beaune's whole sense of purpose is all things wine. It is surrounded by vineyards, has a more than healthy supply of wine merchants, has one of only a few viticulture related secondary schools in the country to train the next generation of wine experts, and its old city is filled with wine caves and cellars that ...

October 15-17 The sun had been shining brightly as the train pulled out of Paris that afternoon but, now evening was upon us as we pulled into Beaune. There was no service via the TGV so, the trip had taken nearly 4 hours on the local line. I alighted to a dark platform with very few other passengers following my lead. In fact, as best I could tell, there were very few passengers even left on the train by the time we reached Beaune. Most had made Dijon their final destination. I ...

... Brussels (6/23). If anyone has any suggestions of what I should be doing in those places, let me know! Let's see here. Mom wanted a little more explanation of the co-ed shower thing. No, there is not one spout for us all to share!!! Actually, there isn't much too tell....there are two stalls with doors that lock...so there is no chance of me getting a peek at cute Mr. Austria, but I will try to bring him home for a certain J-town chica. ;) Also ...

... en*m korr*liku turisminduseg* tegeled*. Õnneks leidsime ühe poe, mis p*kkus kõikvõim*likku Dijo**** vähegi seotud j* mitteseotud nänni, millest turistid võiksid huvit*tud oll*. Näiteks võib om*nd*d* inglisekeelse r**m*tu Pr*ntsusm** juustude koht* 31€ eest. Seev*stu võiv*d pr*ntsl*sed s*m* r**m*tu pr*ntsusekeelse v*ri*ndi ost* 18€ eest. Aus mäng, huh? R pid*s v*j*likum*ks ost* hoopis kirsi- j* oliivim*itselist sinepit ning jällegi ühe Crème de C*ssis’.