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Sunday 25 September / Heavy rain in the morning, cloudy for the remainder of the
day (Remember the menu to the left has albums of photos)
Had a nice breakfast by Lucie, packed our suitcases because
Gourmet Touring
were scheduled to
First stop, a tour of a vineyard owned by Michel Lacost. Nice man, his son
wasn't around (who knew English), so Lisa was thrown into getting her French up
to snuff - and she did a very comm
Second stop, a small town called Langon where we got out and walked around (the
rain by now had stopped). Dropped into a chocolat shoppe called La Fortune
and bought 4 or 5 very rich and tasty chocolats. I love the dark chocolat
- who am I kidding, I like all chocolat! Then there was the hunt for a
washroom. Finally we spotted signs to - yes - "I'm lovin' it" - McDonald's
which we knew
We then set the nav to our final stop, Ste. Emilion where we drop the car, get
our luggage and join the cyclists. When we got there, slowly the group
arrived. First Ross and Willa, then Doug and Paula,
The evening was capped off by cocktails and a 5 or more course fantastic meal. I had the duck (#4 for those counting). The photo depicts one of the desserts (actually in this case Lisa's). Then off to bed, riding starts tomorrow.
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pick it
up and schlep it to our rendezvous where we give up the car and meet up with the
endable
job.
would
be outside of town in some type of mall. So into the car and off we went.
Made it in time.
followed
by Steve and Yolande, and Margaret and Keith. Finally Cathy and the
freewheelers (Steve and John) arrived on the scene and we were off to the van
for a ride (1.5 hours) to our hotel