Friday, October 08, 2004
update from france
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 04:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
We are in France now, with a keyboard that is even weirder than the last. So
bear with me. If you, or anyone else wants to read all the old emails, you
can go to http://megtravels.blogspot.com
Now we are in Alsace Lorraine region of France, staying in strasbourg.
yesterday we went to a new wine festival in the town of Barr. it was not
what I was expecting, but it was neat. I thought there was going to be more
wine to taste; but it turns out that there were only a few wineries
represented and they were only tasting their 'new wines' which were
literally pressed like yesterday; so they taste like applejuice, which is
weird cause they came from grapes but that is what they tasted like. Then we
went to a wine cave and tasted some wine. A wine cave is basically a winery
or wine cellar. They call the, caves cause they used to store wine in caves
to keep it the right temperature, maybe they still do sometimes. We did find
a really great restaurant/wine bar - they call them winstub - not far from
our hostel. This restaurant is relatively inexpensive and SOOOO good. We
have gone there both nights we have been here, and I woulndt object to going
again tonight - if it is open since
it is sunday and NOTHING is open on Sundays. Anyway the first night seth
had the special of mussels in cream sauce. It was so good that we used the
bread - not caring if they were going to charge us for it becuase often they
put bread on your table then if you eat it they charge you for it - we used
the bread to sop up all of the left over sauce. And the portion of mussels
was huge!! and it was only 12 euro!! 5and they didnt charge for the bread) I
had some really tasty duck with sauteed apples, and we had three different
types of local wine. The next night seth got the mussels again; and since we
didnt want to get the same thing; I tried something new, beef stew. It was
good, but not as good as the mussels.
Our hostel is nice here, we get our own room and our own bathroom, for only
44 euro a night! and it includes a huge breakfast. So we have been resting a
lot, since it is hard to sleep in when there are a bunch of other people in
your room.
I guess that is all for now, this keyboard is driving me crazy. Hope things
are going well for you all.
Meg and Seth
We are in France now, with a keyboard that is even weirder than the last. So
bear with me. If you, or anyone else wants to read all the old emails, you
can go to http://megtravels.blogspot.com
Now we are in Alsace Lorraine region of France, staying in strasbourg.
yesterday we went to a new wine festival in the town of Barr. it was not
what I was expecting, but it was neat. I thought there was going to be more
wine to taste; but it turns out that there were only a few wineries
represented and they were only tasting their 'new wines' which were
literally pressed like yesterday; so they taste like applejuice, which is
weird cause they came from grapes but that is what they tasted like. Then we
went to a wine cave and tasted some wine. A wine cave is basically a winery
or wine cellar. They call the, caves cause they used to store wine in caves
to keep it the right temperature, maybe they still do sometimes. We did find
a really great restaurant/wine bar - they call them winstub - not far from
our hostel. This restaurant is relatively inexpensive and SOOOO good. We
have gone there both nights we have been here, and I woulndt object to going
again tonight - if it is open since
it is sunday and NOTHING is open on Sundays. Anyway the first night seth
had the special of mussels in cream sauce. It was so good that we used the
bread - not caring if they were going to charge us for it becuase often they
put bread on your table then if you eat it they charge you for it - we used
the bread to sop up all of the left over sauce. And the portion of mussels
was huge!! and it was only 12 euro!! 5and they didnt charge for the bread) I
had some really tasty duck with sauteed apples, and we had three different
types of local wine. The next night seth got the mussels again; and since we
didnt want to get the same thing; I tried something new, beef stew. It was
good, but not as good as the mussels.
Our hostel is nice here, we get our own room and our own bathroom, for only
44 euro a night! and it includes a huge breakfast. So we have been resting a
lot, since it is hard to sleep in when there are a bunch of other people in
your room.
I guess that is all for now, this keyboard is driving me crazy. Hope things
are going well for you all.
Meg and Seth
