This past weekend we traveled to one of the most storied wine regions in the world, Bordeaux. The Bordeaux wine area is divided into two regions, separated by the Garonne river with the towns of Bordeaux on one side of the river and St.-Emilion on the other. St.-Emilion is the smaller of the two towns with an interesting medieval monolithic church. Monolithic means carved out of one rock. This area has limestone as its base, and there are many natural caves (similar to St. Paul). This church was hand carved out of the rock and is supposedly one of the best preserved in Europe. Like most medieval villages, St.-Emilion is built on a hill and the streets were steep traveling indeed.
I found this campground when I was google searching for accommodations. They offered Caribbean Beach cabana tents, 3 room tents with two bedrooms, refrigerator, gas stove and cooking utensils. One of Larry's French coworkers called it luxury camping. It was literally surrounded by vineyards.
Being the RV'er that we are, we find the European versions of RV's very interesting. They are small and they must be extremely light as they are pulled by the afore mentioned "go-karts." One morning, Larry heard what he thought was a golf cart, but when he looked, it was a man hitching up his trailer. He had a remote control and literally "walked" the trailer out of the site, around and up to the car to hitch.
There is much more to tell about wine, but I'll put that in a separate entry. A bientôt!
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