Tuesday was another ‘greve nationale’, meaning the entire day was a complete mess. All public transportation in Bordeaux was extremely screwed up – one of about every 3 trams was running and the majority of the bus lines weren’t even circulating at all. Some professors cancelled classes (not at sciences-po, of course) on the different Bordeaux campuses and all of the dining halls were closed since the workers were on strike too. The only thing that was open was this little café in the dining hall – which was of course swarmed with people and the women working there said they had no idea when the dining halls would reopen because no one knows how long the strike will be. So instead of risking the tram again I attempted to bike home from campus – which took a pretty loong time since I spend 45 minutes riding the tram to school – and I narrowly avoided getting hit by a few cars again, but at least I didn’t crash into any parked motorcycles this time!
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| St. Emilion |
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| Me and Karina at the wine tasting |
This weekend Karina and I visited St. Emilion, a little touristy/medieval town about 45 minutes from Bordeaux and is also known really well for its famous wines, with Erasmus (the european student exchange program). Unfortunately it was a pretty rainy and cold day, so the tour of the city wasn’t all too fun besides when we visited the underground churches and catacombs. After exploring the city and its gourmet market, we did a wine tasting in one of the Chateaux nearby, called Clos la Madeleine – St. Emilion Grand Cru.
Earlier this week we also booked a small extended weekend trip...to ITALY for next weekend! We're spending Thursday and Friday in Rome, heading to Florence Friday night and staying there for 2 nights until Sunday morning, then taking the train up to Bologna and flying back to Bordeaux from there. SO EXCITED!
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| Clos La Madeleine - St. Emilion Grand Cru red wine |
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