Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 7 (Hermitage // Aix-en-Provence)Day 7 happened to fall on the first Saturday in July. Despite leaving Beaune at 8:30 in the morning, we hit traffic. We quickly learned that the first Saturday in July is when the entire population of Northern Europe descends upon Southern Europe, fleeing their gray, sunless skies in favor of the warm beaches and…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 6 (Burgundy)We actually spent two nights in Burgundy, with one full day which will be mostly a photo tour, because really, while the wine tasting and tour of Chateau Meursault was awesome, the pictures better tell the story. It was our first stop on Friday morning (after we enjoyed the French country breakfast our host prepared!)…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 5 (Sancerre // Burgundy)After waking up in Chavignol on the Fourth of July (just another day in France, of course), we headed for the town of Sancerre, with a cafe first on our list of stops. We found a cute little square, occupied at that moment mostly by cyclists, where we enjoyed our American coffees (because tasting wine…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 3/4 (Vouvray // Tours // Chenonceau // Chavignol)We woke up early on Tuesday to get on the road to Tours, south of Normandy and back in the Loire Valley and we had lined up an appointment at a winery in Vouvray on the way. The vines of the winery had been devastated by hail recently and the owner was still kind enough…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 2 (D-Day Memorial and Omaha Beach)Since Mont St. Michele was thoroughly covered in the previous post, I will save you the multitude of additional photos of the abbey. Someday, you can come over for dinner and Dave and I will break out the slideshow of ‘that time we lived in Europe’ and we can bore you then. For now, I…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Tour de France – Day 1 (Nantes and Mont St. Michele)*I started a post on the day of the visit to Nantes and Mont St. Michele, but the interwebs are spotty in France so pardon my pre-dated posting* Sunday morning was the first day of our tour of France. We were feeling pretty good about the schedule we’d worked on— making sure to hit highlights…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: The best of BordeauxThrough one of Dave’s professors, we had an opportunity to visit Chateau Margaux on Thursday, which was truly a treat for us. Even better, they offered our group a tasting of their wines. As one might imagine, they lived up to their reputation, especially the Margaux (a Premier Grand Cru)— certainly something we would have…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Parc Peixotto on the last day of schoolToday is Dave’s last day of school. If you’re hearing celebratory cheers, that’s probably just us. His time in Bordeaux has been dominated by a rather large project that included an audit of a winery…analyzing the cellar, grape processing, marketing, finances…the whole operation, so needless to say, now that it’s done (and he says it…Keep…
Continue Reading ⟶: Ansel Adams I am notI have been busy working away for some new clients this week (!!) so I haven’t had a chance to comb over some of my latest attempts at photography, but over the weekend, Dave and I went exploring and I snapped some photos of our town. Ultimately, we ended up in Bordeaux, where I subjected…Keep…