Hotel Victor Hugo Dijon

... that they kindly have lent me.
Now i have forgotten what day it was but on either the Tuesday or the Wednesday i visited the town of Beaune wih my host mum. It is a small town south of Dijon and very close by. We took a whole bunch of smaller roads to get there instead of the main highway because this way i could see al the other small towns as we went. The countryside was just beautiful but as we were in the car i didn't take any ...

... 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 ...

... to her tennis lesson. I only played for a little bit and then watched Marie. Later i met Marie's friend Camille and we had hot chocolate at a cafe. It was the most amazing hot chocolate ever. Strange though how it is served in a jug and then you pour it into your cup, i don't really see the point.
While we were walking back to the appartment i began to feel very dizzy and faint. This continued today as well. It must be from all the travel. I have bad jetlag and am very ...

... really got what, but it all tasted good.

Our trip to Burgundy would not be complete without a stop in Nuit-St. George, where we again employed the "look for the sign of whoever is open" tactic and were not dissapointed. We got to try some excellent Pinot, C******nay, and even some Aligote (a white that they mix with Creme de Cassis for an aperitif) from some of the local producers.
Now its up to Champagne!

... just an hour before. We found a place on the square that was pretty cheap and dived in. After lunch we walked in and out of a few wine shops. Soon we found ourselves in a wine tasting cave/shop. It was only 10 euro and you got a wine tasting cup and got to taste 15 different wines!! Whoohoo! We spent the majority of the rest of the afternoon there putting the skills we had learned that morning to use. There was nobody really monitoring our intake but in order to get ...

... 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 ...

... my souvenirs in a secure place, and repacked my suitcase with warmer clothes since I would be traveling tomorrow to Strasbourg and shortly after, Paris. By the time I decided to go to bed, it was very late but boy was I ready to sleep; I had had a long, tiresome train journey from Nice to Dijon, and now I was going to go through another long train trip the next day, but I was ready to continue my Christmas vacation.

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 ...

... of houses and 'La Marie'. Sometimes linked to a school where presumably the headmaster can perform such a role. It shouldn't be forgotten that they also have authority outside the village and into the surrounding countryside where they deal with planning applications and other such bureaucratic exercises. As I still had Euros, I chose a campsite in Gex, but a 21.00 the office closed is closed. I found the owner who happily obliged my ...

... and shops of the centre and a minature Arc de Triomphe. We entertained ourselves mainly at the markets, in fnac listening to Frenchie CDs, being fascinated by a monkey on a carousel (??), and at Flunch listening to ...