Les Deux Abbesses Chateaux & Hotels De France Saint-Arcons-d Allier

Left St Eloy fairly early and lunched at a motorway aire (with free electricity to cool the fridge, and services for the van's wastes) at La Fayette. On to Le Puy with fantastic volcanic mounds with statues and churches atop.

Coubon a small village with the site 7m above the Loire (unexpectedly this far south), but showing signs of having been 2m underwater in the winter.

While DH went to a meeting, I slept in a little (stress the "little" here). I got up and headed back out to the shops. I found some tres chic clothes and had the best time shopping. Oh, I love French clothes. And to top it off, I learned a new French word: Soldes...Sale!!! Everything was on sale, lol, which made it even more fun. [Side Note: I have found out since that retailers in ...

We got off the train at the Perrache station which was quite close to our hotel (thanks to the folks on the train for that hot tip). Took a quick taxi and voila, we were at the Lyon Sofitel Hotel right on the Rhone river. We found out rather quickly that people in Lyon don't speak English as much as they do in Paris. The hotel was nice. Our room was beautiful: Big bed, plasma tv, nice big ...

... in suthern france and visit avignon and Nice using Marseilles as my base camp... I go to the bathroom and the instant I open the bathroom door, it is decided. Back to belgium I go. They had a turkish toilet, but a real one, all you had was a bucket of water and a hole... I ended up riping up pages of my journal.

... as well as my french is coming along it's a bit hard for us. nicole and i get along so well she is insisting i stay with her for as long as i can (yeah, she says that now...) and we are in the process of booking a little holiday away somewhere hot. we went with some friends to the big fireworks in the city (which is just near nicole's place) to celebrate the new tram, that wont ...

Actually, Villeneuve-d'Allier October 13 Christian took and was driving to Auvergne through the Puy-en-Velay and could eventually leave us on the way to the highway heading south from Clermont. But as the day was well entamed, it seemed obvious that we wouldnt make it further afterwards as it would be dark by arrival. So he invited us over for the night and for dinner which was really great and we accepted. We stopped on the way ...

... came up to me and we had a bit of a chat, and he offered for me to go up the tower for free, which Amanda and I had already done. There are way too many stairs to do it again! The thoughtfulness of strangers has really touched me. Nicole is doing her best to keep us busy and I'm doing my best to just have some chill time. I'll keep you posted, and will include photos once I can.

... and sports a good mixture of upper echelon clothing. She is by far the easiest to understand (en francais, bien sur [sorry can't find the ^ key for U]). I look forward to perhaps acquiring the sister I never had. Mon frère is 18 years old, and shares all the characteristics that the age typically entails. He has a HOT girlfriend, is pretty chill and low key, and is just as curious about myself and the United States as I am of him and ...

Ouf 8 jours ca passe vite et c'est fatigant. Autant j'avais hâte de terminer les vendanges g déja hâte de recommencer. Petit arrêt aLyon, ou c'est moi cette fois qui fait visiter. Puis hop j'ai la confirmation de pouvoir faire les vendanges a nouveau. En Alsace. Youppi. Bon je vais aller faire un petit tour a Dreux avant de revoir du raisin.

Ca doit faire une semaine que je suis à Lyon, bien que ce soit une grande ville l'atmosphère est loin d'être celle de Paris. J'ai pu visiter en vélo et heureusement sinon je n'aurais pas eu la force de marcher pour 2 jours.J'ai vu une super vieille église très jolie et une basilique toute en mosaique a l'intérieur, assez fou dans la tête pour faire ca et c'est grand en plus, bof faut pas essayer de ...