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... walking for a long time while we were waiting for the hospice de Beaune to open.
The hospice was very beautiful. It use to be a place for the sick a very very long time ago and they had a little bed and a place for their clothes. There was also a chapel where they could go to pray. We also saw the old room for the kitchen and pharmacy, there was also a separate area for the nobels when they were sick because they were rich they got ...

... a lot but it tasted sooo good =). Then after we had to walk back to the appartment because Marie had forgotten something and then back to school which quickly burned off the lunch. I am doing a lot of exercise in France with all the walking and the flights of stairs at school.
The next class was english which, as you can imgaine, i was very happy about. However the english teacher is not very nice and i soon found out that the english ...

... me awhile to right because my english has decreased already. When i am spoken to in english obviously it does not sound perfect and so now i have found myself copying that, which is not very good at all!)
The train ride from Paris to Dijon took 2 hours and it felt long. For most of it i looked out the window at the countryside. Which is very beautiful in France, it is so green and there are houses scattered everywhere. On the way i also passed Disneyland ^_^
When i ...

Yes it is true. We worked our way up to Beaune, and just like in the Rhone, have not been dissapointed at all. We explored the tiny towns of Pommard, Volnay, Mersault, and Satenay, and got to try some amazing wine from all places. We even tried a place in Pommard and then headed over to his son's winery in Mersault (the son's was actually better than his Dad's stuff!) The only word of caution if you come wine tasting ...

... We slept in the next morning since we had a late night watching football and check out wasn't until 11am. Breakfast was served starting at 9am though so I was downstairs at 9:15am. I was very hungry and they must have known because the breakfast buffet was loaded down with everything, toast, croissants, pastries, cereal, coffee, milk, juice, and Nutella! I even went back for seconds. At breakfast we discussed what we wanted to do that day and with the 3 hour drive ahead ...

... 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 ...

... cathedral. There must be nearly half a mile of free car parking on route to the centre. Violent thunderstorms and dramatic sheet lightning during the night.

22nd July 09 Gurgy 47.51'49.2"N 3.33'15.1"E

On route to Auxerre we spotted this aire. It is a lovely spot on the banks of the Yonne and we intend stopping a couple of days. We could easily have walked to a bar in the evening but the bike was unloaded ready for a trip to Auxerre ...

... several attempts (and an hour of our time) to contact my Visa company to find that out.

Armed with some fresh yummies from the boulangerie, we hopped in our car to take in the Wine Route through Burgundy. It took us through fields of vines, quaint little villages, and a breathtaking stone cliff. We stopped at the Chateau Rochepot, a medieval castle destroyed in the Frech Revolution and partially restored ...

... which was lit up quite spookily. Beaune is a place we would definitely like to come back to and to explore properly.

We only had time to walk around a small part of the town, but it seemed quite sleepy: the bars were closing up at about 10.30pm. We trooped back to the campsite and had a late beer sat by the Bongo. Toppling into the van to sleep we were both shocked at how warm it still was - sleep seemed ...

... And wondering about my own problems, past, wish and moral! Simply really wishing to get to go somewhere in life and to get rid of the ****** part of my past and to settle with someone somewhere. Friendship, experience and all... I'm no easy person! (+) --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ----------- September 18 We finally left and manage to reach the village to get to the little bar to meet other grape picker, but I'm not ...