Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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

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