Burgundy Bound

This weekend, Meghan and I decided to risk it and see if we could take a trip to another spot in France. Since I have class during the week, the weekends are the only time to take trips. Anyways, after some deliberation, we chose Dijon in the beautiful wine region of Burgundy for our first voyage to the countryside. The reasons, I think, were three-fold: (1) Dijon was close, only about 1.5 hours by TGV, (2) Dijon is small enough to be done in two days, and (3) Dijon has Burgundian wine!

To retell the entire trip would take far too long, but let's just say that getting there was an adventure (example: I walked up to the ticket office at the train station and said I'd like a ticket for Dijon; she asked what day; I said today; she asked what time; I said the next one; she looked at me like I was insane). What can be said, however, is that we got to the train station at around 3:30pm and at 7:15pm or so, we flopped down on the bed of our hotel room and said to eachother, "I can't believe it but we're here." Semi-miraculous, I think.

Here are some highlights of the trip (as told through a short slide show):

Here we are at the Place de Francois Rude (a sculpter who I believe is from Dijon). Pretty fountain, and this is one of the only pictures with both of us in it.



Here's me at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. I'm in front of a painting that I wrote a paper about last year. Isn't that amazing?! I worked on this painting, and here I'm STANDING in front of it (okay, so maybe you don't think that's amazing, but I do).



Here's the Palais du Justice in the middle of old Dijon. In the center you'll notice an accordion player. They have lots of accordion players in France; I feel like you need to know these things.



Here's me in heaven...or I mean a wine cellar in Burgundy. Check another life-goal off the list; Meghan and I got to take a wine tour through the Cote d'Or, and it was beautiful. Plus, we had two different tastings with Burgundian wine (mostly red, though we got to hit a few whites). Meghan tried every single one (seriously, are you not impressed?!), and even liked one of them (a white). Amazing time. The highlight of my time here so far. Totally different from California too (Matt/Katie I need to tell you about that later).



Lots of different churches (that were all beautiful), lots of scenery shots (that we're unfortunately not posting), and lots of beautiful buildings. All in all, Dijon and the surrounding area was gorgeous and not grimy (like the occasional section of Paris). Just to let you know, Meghan is the small figure you see in the picture above marveling at the beautiful gothic-esque architecture. This is the Eglise de Saint-Michel in Dijon. Wowzer.

Okay, enough pictures. Fun times. Leave comments.