Hotel de la Poste Beaune
1-5 boulevard Clemenceau Beaune, Burgundy, 21200, France
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Les Trois Glorieuses
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The parade was followed by a ceremony where celebrities who had some connection to Burgundy were inducted in the local wine club. Each year several such figures are invited to attend the festival. They each pick a charity to support with money raised during the weekend. (At the wine auction later in the day, a ...
Back To School and Armistice Day
Before we left for France, one of my teachers at the Alliance Française wrote a letter of introduction for me. I wanted to see about volunteering in a school, and since that isn't really done here, she had suggested that I bring her letter to the school as a character reference. I went to the local school about four weeks ago, letter in hand.
The school in town is called "La Goutte d’Or", which means “a drop of ...
Differences
... product is always labeled with its country of origin, and this is the biggest thing on the sign. People are very opinionated about all of this. “The best apples are from Germany, don’t buy bananas from Cameroon, Spain’s tomatoes are the worst,” etc. As a rule, you will only get things that are in season. So, right now there are lots of root vegetables, pears and apples. It is impossible to get a berry or a peach ...
“Crème de Cassis” & Signage
... This one represents one-part Cassis and this one represents ten-parts wine.” I guess she REALLY wanted us to get it correct. Later in the evening, she told us when she had recently been to dinner with her husband in Beaune, she had a “Rouge Gorge” (Red Robin). This drink was made with Crème de Cassis, Crème de Mûre (Blackberry Liquor), red wine and…gin. Tonight, we dine in Beaune!
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Paris Visit and a little bit more…
... the "Buffalo Grill". We’ve noticed this chain in France on numerous trips with the Minnesota Ambassadors, and believe it or not we were craving some American-style food. The Country & Western music was blaring, there were statues of Native Americans and Totem Poles, and there was a mounted buffalo head just inside the door. The menus had pictures of cowboys, and before dinner we were brought a small bowl of popcorn. ...



