Good News and Bad News

Well, I have returned to Vichy. We had a good trip this week. We left Tuesday morning and got back early Sunday morning. The first day we went to Avignon and visited "Le Palais des Papes" or Palace of the Popes which was built during the Avignon papacy and we also visted the famous Pont d'Avignon or Bridge of Agivnon. Then we went to Pont du Gard which is a huge ass aqueduct and bridge. After that we went to Nimes and visited the best preserved Roman colloseum and we went to Montepellier, but there wasn't really anything there. It's just a big city. Then we went to Toulouse and drove the way we came to a wine chateau south of Narbonne and we took a tour of the winery and tasted about 8 wines. After that we went drove to the Mediterranean Sea and walked out to the beach and then to a lighthouse. Then we went to Carcasonne which has a fortified city with a wall around it and a castle and church. We then went back to Toulouse and walked around the city there and met up with a friend of ours that we met in Vichy. After Toulouse we went to Bordeaux walked around the city a little bit and then we went to the wine region north of Bordeaux (Our driver, Dimitri, is a wine enthusiast) and we learned about wine and wine making, and took a tour of the chateaux, and at the first one we tasted 4 wines, and then we went down the road to a higher rated and biggest chateaux. There an English guy gave us a tour and we tasted their wine. Each wine tasting was about 6 euros or 8 to 9 dollars. After that we went to the Great Dune of Pila (tallest sand dune in Europe), west of Bordeaux along the Atlantic Ocean. We climbed up the dune and went down to the ocean and then we left there at about 10 p.m Saturday night and drove for 7 hours and arrived back in Vichy at 5 a.m. Sunday morning.


Oh yeah, the bad news. I guess the company that supplies our internet at my apartment building decided to quit supply the internet there. So, now I have to use the school's internet which is slower. At my apartment building there isn't any tv either, so there isn't a lot to do. But luckily they have American movies at the library and when I flew to France I left my SimCity 2000 game inside of it, so at least I can play something besides minesweeper and spider solitaire.

Here are the places we went:

Palace of the Popes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_des_Papes

Pont d'Avignon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_d%27Avignon

Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_du_Gard

Arena of Nimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_of_Nimes

Roman Temple in Nimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e

Nimes ( in General): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimes

Portel-des-Corbieres (wine tasting): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portel-des-Corbi%C3%A8res

Port-La-Nouvelle (mediterranean sea):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_la_Nouvelle

Carcasonne (fortified city):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcasonne

Chateau Giscours (wine tasting): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_Giscours

Chateau Rauzan-Gassies (wine tasting): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_Rauzan_Gassies

Great Dune:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilat_Dunes