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| Château de Pierreclos, Bourgogne,France |
Seriously - one can just love the life here in France - on vacation of course. Beautiful weather, classic city, good friends, great food, and after morning class and lunch I’m “home” before 3pm. A sieste for the afternoon, then preparations to go on a picnic in a park to listen to a concert with friends. Ce n’est pas mal !
Chateau de Pierreclos
My three weeks of French class at ESL are over. I have said goodbye to my new friends, Sigrid (Austrian) and Lisa (Italy). My last evening I took Patrice and Agnès (my hosts) out to dinner for a thank you. I also gave them a watercolor I did of le Rhône in one of its best colors with La Croix Rousse in the background as always. They have been great. They will welcome me back for one night when I return from Miramas before I fly out to go home.
I am taking the TGV (super fast train) from Lyon to
Paris and lucked out with a first class ticket. Out of Lyon, through
Beaujolais, and picking up speed. I now wish I were on the top level
because I cannot see a lot on the lower. The train is so quiet and
smooth (compared to the Amtrak from Portland, Maine, to Boston. We pass
the Màcon area where we’d been on our Chateaux visit. I recognize the
glacier-formed cliff in the distance. There are many herds of white
cattle in the fields. A river with a half dozen swans swimming in a
spread-out half-V formation.
[apologies for the low resolution photos .. these were transferred from an old website and will be updated to high resolution ASAP]
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