Castle

Hello Family and Friends,

April 16 to 20 CASTLE weekend

So you know how there is one place in the world that you really want to see before you die.

Well my one place that I want to see before I died was this castle that is in the movie "Ever After." This castle is in France, about 2 and half hours from the city of Bordeaux.

The castle is called Chateau de Hautefortin in Hautefortin, France.

The move "Ever After" is my favorite movie, I know all of the lines, and I can tell you any scene in the movie. I could tell you what happened before that scene and what will happen next. There are a total of for castles in this movie, if I know how to get to the other 3 I would have gone to them as well. But I did not know how to get to them.

So I took my friend David there with me to find this castle.

On Friday morning we got up and went to find the tourism office so we could find out how to get to the castle. Then they told us that the bus that goes out there is not running because it is school holiday in France. When I heard this my heart sunk, and I wanted to go BACK to Switzerland immediately. Then the lady told us that the only way out there is by car.

David know that if I did not see this castle that I would go home the most disappointed person in the world. He also knew he had to keep me calm too.

SO what does David do, he prices out a taxi there, and then prices out a rental car. The rental car was cheaper, so we rented the car. The drive out there was really nice, it was all in the country side.

This was the best day ever.

On Thursday we went into the city of Bordeaux. This was David’s tour day of our weeke

nd. He tried to take me on a walking of the city but it did not work out that well. He managed to find the shopping street. We walked up and down that street for like 2 hours before I said “I don’t want to shop anymore.”

Opera house

Then on Sunday we walked around the city Perigueux this was the city that we were staying in. There is not much to do in this city but the big church, and this square.

The big church in the center of town

This was a good weekend.

Till next time,

Travel54s

The cheese factroy and Burn City tour

Hello family and friends,

So on April 29 we took a class field trip to the the Emmentaler Cheese Factory. We know this cheese in America as Swiss Cheese.



This was a really nice little tour of how this cheese is made. Now with all of the standers for milk. They now have to put an acid in the cheese to make the air bubbles, so there is holes in the cheese. Before this was a natural posses in making this type of cheese.




Each wheel of cheese is 100kg to 150kg can you big. the also get taller too because of making the air bubbles in side.



We also learned how to make cheese over all. how they heat it and separate it out the way and the curds. How they press all of the water out, and wash the rein with salt water. They will let a cheese age for about 4 months before the even test it to see if it passes standers.

To sell Emmentaler cheese as a first class cheese it has to pass a test that is based on a 20 point scale. If the cheese is between a 17 1/2 and 20 it is a first class cheese.

Then after leaning about this cheese, we got to taste it. The first one we tried was 4 months old. It was very mild and still a young cheese. The next one we tried was a year old, it tasted just like the Swiss cheese that we get back in the states. The last one we tried was 2 years old, it had a really strong taste, and I could really taste the salt in this one. I did not like the last one we tasted.


After that we went on a nice walking tour of the city of Burn. This is also the capital of Switzerland, if you did not know. We leaned all about the history of the city. Our tour guide did not like us very much because she only showed us about half of the city.



We saw the big clock, and the major church, and the old city gates and then the new old city gates. We saw the capital building. Then she is like I will tell you how to get back to the shopping street.




I did not shop but I did get STARBUCKS. It was really good, to get good coffee.

so that was my class field trip.

Till next time

Travel54s

Sorry I am sooo far behind on my weekend travel up-dates

Hello family and Friends,

So i know i have not in formed you of how many of my weekends have been going. that is because i have bee really busy with class and projects.

but the weekend and class day trips that you should be look for are as followed.
April 16-20 Castle (in France)
April 22-25 Geneva
April 29 the cheese factory and Burn city tour
April 30-May 3 Prague
May 6 the Zurich airport tour (can you say KOOL)

they are all coming soon i just want to let you know that i have not for gotten my flowers.

the day trips might come up before the weekend trips just because they are day tips with the class and we spend more time getting there then we do spend there.

till next time

Travel54s