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 top of the terraces to look around at his vineyard, which was pretty spectacular. I don't know if he would usually take us down anyway actually because we were probably pretty short on time as it was. From there he took us into the cellars and showed us the vats that they use, which was very interesting. Because they have a number of different ... read more

Come hear the music play... OK, that was cryptic, and probably only my dad will understand it, but we went to se a show tonight and it was fantastic. We didn't do much during the day...mostly because we didn't know what we were looking for. We needed to book tickets for our train trip to Bordeaux tomorrow, so we went to the Metro, and it was there that I met my first rude French person, who went out of his way not to help me, so we caught the Metro to the train station that we would have to leave from tomorrow and everybody was helpful there. From there we thought we would explore Montparnasse, but there wasn't anything amazingly different there (all of Paris is amazing, so it was still a beautiful spot, just nothing ... read more

Bonjours Mes Amis Ha, I have become so French already. I love it here. Today we went to Montmarte, which is where all the bohemians hang out (even though I doubt they can actually afford to live there). We caught the metro there and walked around, saw the Moulin Rouge (which is a bit uninspiring in the daylight, so if you go to see it, maybe go at nighttime), and then wandered around. We got to this one place and it was up a heap of stairs so we climbed them, and then decided there wasn't much to see up there so we went back down. When we looked at the map afterwards we realised there was a whole stack of stuff we missed out on, but we didn't want to have to climb all those ... read more

Hello everybody! Took the tunnel to France today. I think I'm going to really, really, really like France. The tunnel train goes into Paris Nord station, which is massively big - think Brisbane Internation Airport, but a train station...strange. And a bit overwhelming, but we made it through, and spoke to some very nice tourist information people, and they told us where to go. So we caught the Metro, which is France's (better) answer for the London Underground, to where we were staying. It's so cool, there was a young guy playing violin while we were going to the second stop we needed to get to. He's stare directly into peoples' eyes as he was playing...I think to guilt us into paying him...but that didn't work. Then he ran out...I'm not sure if they're actually allowed ... read more

Hello! Had a great day today, did all sorts of things, aching everywhere but it's completely worth it. First we went to the British Museum. It's so huge, you really need a guide to take you through, because we really didn't know what to look at and a lot of the time didn't really know what we were looking at. We spent a long time in the ancients, they were just phenomenal. Some of the stuff was so huge you are dwarved by it all, and wonder how they could have put it all together. Most of the Roman stuff was closed off unfortunately so we didn't get to see most of that, so that was disappointing, but doesn't matter, the Greek section was beautiful. We saw a few other things in there, you have to ... read more