Christmas, New Years Eve

Two days before Christmas, we headed off again to the market at Chagny.  We purchased most of the gorgeous produce we needed for our Christmas Menu.

So, on Christmas Day, Richard woke me with a glass of Champagne, a lit candle and a chocolate Santa!  We then started our preparations for our Wine and Food matching long lunch...  Richard had already made the Smoked Salmon Blinis, which we had with Strawberries and Champagne while we skyped our darling friends and family we were missing so much...  our lunch consisted of many courses (and wine), some of these included Tiger Prawns and Snails in Garlic Butter, Chantral and mixed Mushrooms in Thyme butter with crunchy Baguette, Aged Beef with Bernaise Sauce on creamed Spinich and Mash - it goes on and on.  Obviously all of the wine was French and from the region we are staying in - Champagne, Luberon 2010 Rose, Rully 1st Cru Chardonnay, Rully 1st Cru Pinot Noir etc etc

New Years Eve we went to lunch at Beaune to a Restaurant called  Le Cheval Noir.  We had a 6 course wine and food match - the food and the service was excellent.  The photos show my entrée of Tempura Prawns and Richards Dessert of Citrus Chocolate

Oh la la PARIS...

We drove up to Paris and had 2 nights there.  Our first night we went to a fantastic comedy show "How to become a Parisian in an Hour".  He is heading off internationally to do his show - we would highly recommend it.

This is the sunrise (about 8.30am) the next morning and a flower shop we passed along the way...

We headed to our next destination, which was see Paris by Segway - what a great way to get about and a laugh too!  Our guide - Jonny was fantastic - we had 3 1/2 hours of great site seeing

Heres a few more shots of some of the sights...

Cote-D'Or..

Each day we have been driving our area...  Here are a few photos we have taken

Mersault Church at Night

          

Our Neighbour

Chateau de La Rochpot

Look what we woke up to...

When we pulled back the curtains this morning, this was what greeted us ...

We headed to our local town Meursault, about 5 minutes by car, as it is market day.

We bought delicious cheeses, scallops, fruit and veg, Pate and then of course we had to go and buy Baguette and delicious cherry tart.  It really is very beautiful here!

From Our Rose to France...

The plan was for "Our Rose" to be launched today - instead we arrived in Paris...

Two Weeks ago, Rudi had a meeting with us - the outcome being that "Our Rose" was not going to be launched this year... Yes, we were pretty upset.

So, within a day of the meeting, we had looked at our options and following many past offers from our friends Peter and Nancy to enjoy their house in France, it was an opportune time to take up their offer.

So, we now find ourselves in Paris for the night - we had some lovely wine and "tapas" style dinner