This past weekend, I took the train from Avignon to
Auxerre (the capital of the
Bourgogne/Burgundy region of France) to see one of my oldest friends, Delphine. It's a funny story, because the two of us met coincidentally when I was in France the last time with my mom 12 years ago. Anyways, we've stayed in contact and I spent the weekend with her and her boyfriend and his parents (since they live with his parents).
It was a really great weekend. Not too touristy, but very relaxed and allowed us to really catch up and just hang out.
As we weren't "trop touristique," we didn't take a lot of photos, but here are a few from our visit to one of the caves that make some of the famous Burgundy wines.
A sculpture in the stone of the cave, aparently they'd been working on sculptures down there for years for an art expo. This particular one had a little story that went along with it (as you can see by the one guy who's lit up, he was "talking" at that point of the recording.
The machines that turn the bottles during the process. I believe in each one there are 500 bottles of wine?
Delphine and her boyfriend Thomas in the cave de Bailly. Notice behind them, ALL bottles of red wine. Apparently, at any given moment the cave contains at least 4-5 MILLION bottles of wine.
Another large stack of rosé. We definitely contemplated "borrowing a few." Unfortunately they arn't the bottles that are really ready for consumption (eg they have bottle caps on the bottles au lieu de corks).
Our pretty glasses from the tasting that we had afterwards.
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