Hotel de Bourgogne
Travel Blogs from Cluny
-2 and snow? Seriously?
... ham for example. you can buy it in oz but its just ham. Nothing special. But try it in Italy and the flavour is spectacular. You begin to understand why the Italians and Greeks etc all have their own shops. They import it direct so it is the real deal and worth every penny. Olive oil made localy by hand in greece still has the green, grainy look it is supposed to. And you will happily drink it, It is that good. In the supermarket it is blended and ...
Macon
... smaller than Texas, 22 regions and 101 departments - European Union - now 27 countries Cities - Paris 2.2 million, Marseille - 850,000, Lyon - 480,000 Economy - automotive, aerospace & railways, cosmetics, banking & insurance, wine, pharmaceuticals and agriculture (second largest exporter in the world). Tourism - 81 million foreign visitors a year. French work 35 hours a week. Population - 65.35 million inhabitants. ...
The Kingdom of God is...
... Old Russian, and one of the Russian girls here sang with him in beautiful alto tones. The effect of these two voices echoing so richly off the walls made it seem not only as if the voices were all around us, but as if we were in them. Benevolently, Natasha, another Russian girl here (not Agniya, who was singing) had expleined how the Orthodox liturgy worked the previous evening, and had told us that while people stood all through the service, we were ...
A day in Chalon sur Saone and the laundry
... on their insurance. The other advantage in arriving early was that we got our pick of berths in the very large port. By this time the fog had lifted and the sun was shining, yet another beautiful day on the Saone.
We all headed for the town, John and I headed for the laundromat and the cyber café (so we could upload our blogs). We met up for lunch in one of the two main plazas. Post lunch we went our separate ways again and finally met up on the boat ...
Burgundy and Wine TAsting
... Bryan. Shar is the driver today so she happy not drinking. Then went to Fleurie Co-Operative for pretty major wine tasting of the many varieties of Beaujolais - Excellent .......then on to another at Prisse for some more lovely wines. Pouilly Fouisse which I really like. Evokes memories of when I was in Uk and France when I was ...