Gnome Lady

St Emilion

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August 29th 2007
Bonsoir everybody! We went for our first tour of the holiday today out to a place called Saint Emmilion. It's a small village surrounded by vineyards, as is basically all of the Bordeaux area except a massive pine forest just before the Atlantic. The tour took us to a vineyard named Chateau de Pressar, where the big boss man showed us around. Because it was raining, he only took us to the to ... read more

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