At Home in Bourgogne

Mourceau, France

June 20, 2010

Home Away from Home

Bonjour,

This evening a bottle of French wine, fresh cut flowers in a vase, and breakfast makings greeted us as we arrived at our home for the week in France. What a lovely surprise!!

Today we shared good wishes and goodbyes with our friends in Zurich, Switzerland then traveled by train to Lyon, France. There we rented a car with a GPS. Using the GPS got us a wee bit lost - adding at least an hour of driving to our already 2 1/2 hour drive. (However the Mapquest directions we were sent would have gotten us there easy as pie...if we had only printed them out....)

Paul is our French speaker and his abilities came in very handy today. As you can imagine, on a Sunday night in a tiny village in France there are not a lot of people out and about to ask for directions. Winding through the village streets we finally found one pub open with a few people watching the World Cup. Paul was able to ask for directions - and, even better, understand the response - in French. :o) We pulled up to the house as the sun was starting to set.

We are staying in a beautiful stone and wood beam farmhouse, in Mourceau, France, owned by friends of friends, called, "Maison Chouette," which means, "Owl House" (I think :o)). Pictures can't even do it justice. Roses of pink and yellow nod their heads in the garden, a stone and wood barn holds bikes ready for country rides, a jacuzzi is set on the stone patio outside, and we have lots of room to spread out!

Our stay here will be for six nights - the longest we've stayed any one place since we spent a week in Phuket, Thailand in March! Tomorrow in the daylight we look forward to more exploring.

Au revoir and much love,

Jackie :o)