Tag: Bordeaux

San Sebastian – 6.8.11 to 6.10.11

.Reading time 8 minutes.

We left Bordeaux the morning of the 8th and started making our way towards our first stop in Spain, San Sebastian. We needed to get there by no later than 4:30pm in order to check into our hotel room and we had about a 3 hour drive ahead of us. We seemed to have enough […]

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St.Emilion – 6.7.11

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Taking the advice of several good friends and few locals, we headed to St.Emilion to see the old village and wineries. We were not quite prepared for the amount of vineyards as St.Emilion has over 600 of them! Essentially we spent the day amidst never ending rows of vines. The first stop was the office […]

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Bordeaux – 6.4.11 to 6.6.11

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Bonjour from Bordeaux! We drove from Saumur to Bordeaux and arrived at our hotel around 7pm – Val promptly passed out cold and didn’t wake up till 11 a.m. the next day – guess the jet lag finally caught up with her. Chris stayed up to finish reading ‘A Million Little Pieces’ – jet lag or not, […]

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