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Day four: Going to Beaune Today started early. Our room in our charming little hotel faced the street. They started emptying garbage cans around 5:00 AM. Of course, we both woke up and started the day. The best way I can describe the bathing situation is to say that it was a tub/shower. There was a tub, and a hand held shower nozzle, but there was no shower curtain. The best we could do was to squat in the tub, and spray our bodies. Larry had to help me rinse my hair, which was hysterical. I washed my hair before [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 7th 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=443037]

Sunrise in Colmar
Can you believe this
Wednesday Market Day.

By WhereIsSteve
September 16th 2009
Beaune - Chocolate Nuns Europe » France » Burgundy » Beaune
Wednesday - Religieuse, Wine Tasting and Chalon Chocolate Nuns This morning Nick and I are sent out to a particular patisserie Anne has discovered in the village of Ladoix. We have been sent to buy pastries -“religieuse”, which are cakes which are meant to look like nuns and just happen to be full of chocolate. I’m not sure why these cakes need to be shaped like nuns and called “religieuse”? Are they meant to have any religious significance? Could I eat a big chocolate cake instead of going to church [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 12th 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=443874]


By WhereIsSteve
September 15th 2009
Beaune - Le MOT Europe » France » Burgundy » Beaune
Tuesday - Le MOT and the Wine Museum Le MOT It’s a test of our ability to speak French this morning. Nick and Anne’s car has to go in for the French equivalent of its MOT, the “Controle Technique” test this morning. Anne speaks far better French than either of us and would be the obvious person to attempt a conversation with the mechanic. But she has earned a lie-in this morning - she has been working picking grapes for the last few days and has been out celebrating the end of the Vendange last night. Nick takes the ca [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 8th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=443090]


Monday - Steve the Stupendous and Nick the Nice Bread Monday morning. Nick has been to the boulangerie to buy fresh bread. Here are some interesting facts about bread in France:- One of Nick’s neighbours is an apprentice baker. Before he is fully qualified to bake bread he has to serve a 5 year apprenticeship! Interesting fact #2. Nick has heard that there is a law in France which says that every village above a certain size must have a bakery. This immediately has me firing questions at him, questions he has no chance of answe [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 7th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=442943]


Sunday - Les Joyeux Temps de La Vendange Mont de Sene We take a drive out to Mont de Sene, also known as Le Montagne de Trois Crois. Even with my limited French I’m looking out for three crosses on a hill as we are driving along. There are views out in all directions. Nick tells me that sometimes he has been able to see Mont Blanc from here but today it is a little hazy. We’ve brought a picnic with us - just some bread, cheese and water. Being a Sunday there are a number of families out picnicking too. [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 5th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=442405]


By WhereIsSteve
September 12th 2009
Beaune - Market Day Europe » France » Burgundy » Beaune
Saturday - Market Day and Wedding Day Beaune Market Saturday is market day in Beaune. We take a leisurely stroll around the market while Nick stocks up on fruit and cheese. It’s quite a big market, occupying most of the centre of town, and it’s fairly busy. There are clearly a lot of tourists in town judging by the amount of people who {like me} are pointing digital cameras in every direction but it is also a “proper” market with people coming into the town centre to do their shopping. Amongst the stalls there are sever [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 5th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=442119]


By WhereIsSteve
September 11th 2009
Beaune - God's Hotel Europe » France » Burgundy » Beaune
Friday - God’s Hotel, Bulgarian cookery and International Table Football Hôtel-Dieu Friday morning and it’s a visit to Hôtel-Dieu. If my French is any good {and we’ve already established that it isn’t!} that translates as “God’s Hotel”. I don’t think I’d be able to get a room there. Also known as Hospices de Beaune, it was originally established as a hospital for the poor in the late 15th century. It remained in use as a hospital until as recently as 1971 {Am I showing my a [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 4th 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=442061]


Thursday - No KFC or Maccy D Calais to Beaune I have the whole day to drive from Calais down to Beaune - a journey of about 360 miles - so I can make a fairly leisurely day of it. Following Bernadette’s excellent petit déjeuner I load up the car, thank Francis and Bernadette with words chosen randomly from several European languages, and head south-east towards Beaune. My route takes me around the Paris ring road thankful that I have the calming voice of Ken on my satnav to guide me - I really MUST stop off at Paris one day [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 4th 2009 | 50 Views | [diary=441994]


By WhereIsSteve
September 8th 2009
Beaune Europe » France » Burgundy » Beaune
Tuesday - Baked Beans to Beaune From one extreme to the other. From a part of Spain where you wouldn’t know you were in Spain to a part of France which is very, very French. Beaune is in Burgundy. It was once the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy and is now a centre for the wine industry. I believe it has a considerable tourist industry based around the its vineyards but I’m not expecting to see any stag parties there! The time of year I’m going is the time of the “Vendange”, the grape harvest, and I’m hoping I might [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 27th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=440273]


What was up for the long weekend of 21 May to 24? Rock climbing shinadigs thats what. Me, Dan, Jen, Mark and Paul all went for a ride from Amsterdam to [url= http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=58700+Nolay,+Ni%C3%A8vre,+Burgundy,+France&sll=41.574875,-2.336655&sspn=0.138691,0.379028&g=nolay&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=FZQDzwId3rEyAA&split=0&ll=47.12341,3.34465&spn=0.063073,0.189514&z=12] Nolay in Dan's car. It took as a little over 7 hours to get to our campsite, combined with rain and very little help in English when asking for directions. Needless to say we found the campsite [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 7th 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=431130]

Me climbing woohoo
Pretty flowers
The local cafe where we met our local frenchies drinking wine


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