first hike of the summer

Chief Mountain, Evergreen

down to Bordeaux, St. Emilion, San Sebastian & back up to Biarritz

Bordeaux - Place de la Bourse

La Bourse & the water mirror

Palais des Rohans

Place des Quinconces


Mouton-Rothschild in the Haut-Medoc
the chai (say shay, half underground cellar) of Lynch-Bages
Chateau Pichon-Longueville
Chateau Latour

Starting off our tour of Haut-Brion & La Mission Haut-Brion

baby grapes
racking the wine - emptying the wine from the barrels, checking for sediment with candlelight
happy to taste some Haut-Brion!

Le Bar a Vins, Bordeaux
raclette for the seriousview from the rooftop of our hotel
Chateau St. Georges, St. Emilion
St. Emilion
St. Emilion vineyard


Letting ourselves in to the bell tower
the view from on top



dinner at Le Tertre
macarons St. Emilion style
San Sebastian, Spain

the AtlanticOur first pinxtos! (Basque for tapas)
Playa de la Concha
More pinxtos A few sheep in the road between San Sebastian and St. Jean de Luz
Marie-Helene, Jean-Jacques & Elizabeth, Saint Jean de Luz
Biarritz!
Port des Pecheurs
La Grande Plage

Last view of the ocean, from Biarritz
See what a beautiful day it is in Bordeaux? Perfect...as we head back to Paris.