Day 26 - Blogabond

We did awake from what little sleep we did have in a new country with a new language. We switched trains just over the border as now we were in the French train system. There is little or no cooperation between French and Spanish transit. We arrived in Bordeaux at about 10:30, exhausted. We thought we might explore the town, but had just enough energy to find a lunch spot and eat. A glass of Rose and a nice little French meal with really great bread and we were ready to head to St-Emilion in the heart of fine wine country and our next hotel. The drive is really quite pretty with vineyards on every bit of available land the closer we got to St-Emilion. With some wines in the area selling for over 1000 Euro a bottle, you can see why.

Our hotel was a renovated Chateau just outside town with beautiful ground, a pool, and grape vines up to our patio. We got settled in and went to town to feed Mark, who didn’t want to eat at the fancy hotel restaurant. St-Emilion is a very old town built on the side of a large hill. It is filled with wine shops offering tasting of fine Bordeaux wines and restaurants. Mark was picky though and we found him a cheese pizza, what a waste. Paul and I went back to the hotel and had a very nice dinner outside at the hotel, overlooking a large yard and the vineyards. The chef did and excellent job of surprising us with new taste combinations. The red pepper sorbet was really memorable. SKC

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pscossette on July 13, 2007 from Saint-Emilion, France

from the travel blog: The Cossette Family Sabbatical

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