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April 28th 2012
April 28, 2012 Today was dedicated to food and the cooking of it. This was the day of my first cooking class. I had hoped to find a French chef to take the class from, but there were just not many choices when it came to cooking classes in Dijon. While Alex may not be a French native he has lived here for 32 years and is a dual French/American citizen, thus allowing him to vote in both countries. The day began at 9 am (we got up at 7) Alex arrived at the apartment and unloaded his wares in the kitchen upstairs. We cooked in the kitchen of the people who own the building we are staying in. It is a large kitchen with a large dining table as well. Jerry was going to spend ... read more
April 27th 2012
April 27, 2012 Strasbourg I slept hard and could have slept much longer than the 10 am that I did. I couldn’t really tell you if the bed was comfortable or not, Jerry said it was, all I know is that as soon as my head hit the pillow I was gone. We woke up to a beautiful sunny day. Warm enough for a pair of shorts, which is what is choose to wear. After showering, etc. we packed up the car and then set out to explore a bit of the city before we headed for Dijon. As I previously reported, Strasbourg like Paris has a main city and the part that is on an Island. In Paris the island is in the middle of the Seine, in Strasbourg it is in the middle of ... read more
April 9th 2012
Where do I even begin? It's 2:45am and Aurelie's wedding was a 2 day event. We started off on Saturday, April 7 with a Chinese tradition of the fiancee coming over to the house and paying red envelopes to get to his future wife, in this case Aurelie! Richard and his friends paved their way and made their dues, paying envelope after envelope to get to Aurelie. When he reached his bride, they did their prayers and headed over to Richard's house where we would have lunch. When it came time to 4pm, we then made our way to the city hall where they officially became man and wife. It was a bit different than most American weddings, as it seems this was the most important day vs. our usual wedding ceremony. As soon as that ... read more
March 23rd 2012
J'avais alle en Darcy Square et a prendu des photo de Porte Guillaume, apres j'avais achete un Souvenir de Porte Guillaume. ... read more
March 22nd 2012
Aujourdh'ui nous avons alle a le Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Mon piece preferee etais le ''Castle of Mariemont'' par Jan Brueghel the elder.... read more
March 21st 2012
Apres regarder a Notre dame tout le monde veux acheter les souvenirs. Nous avons marchera Le Rue De la Liberte pour regarder a les magazin.... read more
March 20th 2012
Aujourdh'ui nous avons manger en Le Chapeau du Rouge puis marcher en Dijon. Sur le marche j'avais vu l'eglise Notre Dame.... read more
France, Part 16-The Holidays in France-The Basics
Published: October 11th 2011Europe » France » Burgundy » Dijon
October 10th 2011
Note: All events in this entry occured between December 2006-January 2007. For more updated entries and trips, please refer back to this blog at a later date. Up to date entries will NOT include a note like this. Thanks and enjoy! Dear readers, as you have noticed my last blogs: "Christmas in Nice," "Day Trip to Monaco/Monte Carlo," "My 21st Birthday and New Years in Strasbourg," "Two Days in Disneyland Paris," "Versailles and the Louvre," and "Musee d'Orsay" all took place around Christmas and New Years. I did get into some details behind some of the Christmas traditions mentioned in these entries, however I would like to give a general over view so that all of you can get an idea of what it was like celebrating Christmas and New Years in France in comparison to ... read more
September 26th 2011
Note: All events described in this entry occurred between late September to early October 2006. For more updated entries and trips. please refer back to this blog at a later date. Thanks! My last four days in Krakow really sucked because I came down with either the flu or a bad case of the common cold. The next day after my trip from Auschwitz, I woke up with a sore throat and a heavy cough. I have the chills and my body aches. I have no choice but to stay in the hostel because I didn't want myself to get even more sick. the manager offers to have a staff member pick up some medicine for me, however I did come prepared with some Airborne and some cough medicine. However, in three days I started to ... read more
France, Part 5-Wining and Dinning in Beune and Nuit Saint Georges
Published: September 27th 2011Europe » France » Burgundy » Nuits-Saint-GeorgesSeptember 26th 2011
Note: All events described in this entry occurred in October 2006. For more updated entries and trips, please refer back to this blog at a later date. Entries that take place in the present day will NOT include this note at the top. Thanks! My life upon my return to France was not 100% pleasant. The relationship between my host mother and I was beginning to deteriorate quickly and my needs were just not being met in my foreign exchange program. I decided to yet schedule more trips within France. I decided that I would spend a weekend touring both of the most famous cities for wine within the Cote d'Or department of Burgundy: Beaune and Nuit Saint Georges. I go down to the SNCF office and book both of these trips (by now I was ... read more
