bordeaux day 6

once again more flower pictures to start off this post! haha i think some have really gotten better. i particularly liek the purple flower and the red leaf:D the pink spiky thing is alot a cool plant. not a very good photo but a cool plant.

today we are off to more win tasting and the quaint little village like place of  st emilion. (read st-eh-mil-e-on) its a small little town tats on the outskirts of bordeux. once again view is.. oohlalala.

so off to all the wine tasting again

first place we went to was this guy who was really funny. D: he kept tricking me and my mum with magic tricks haha. i think its cause he has alot of kids so he does alot. its in this little house and we go to watch a video on wine making and what not.

after that went to this place where they had the wine all kept in caves. its quite cool, really cold and dark in the caves even though it was very nice and sunny outside. the place was over touristy though so we didn't get as much information out of the guide as the day before.(we didn't go as a tour group either so not much information in the first place)

after that went to the little town of st emillion. ( dont know how to spell again) we went to tour this underground church area where the people used to live. so under that whole town there is actually a whole underground world. really cool:D literally too!

 after that we went up to the bell tower and looked at the view from the top. was really cool since you could see the clean organisation of the quaint houses. its.. pratically a painting the organisation was really nice. and you could see the outskirts of the country side on the side. really was nice!

we also went there for another wine tour. this time its in this old guy's house. and its like this small little door which you go through and you realise the whole back of the house is huge! it was filled with antiqueish stuff, like those old wallpaper and stuff. really cool. then after tat we were kind of like where to next. we were lead down a steep staircase and into an underground cellar. after walking around you realise its huge @_@ i think it spreads to under his neighbours house! according to the guy the tunnels were made by the prisoners/soldier? during war and there were still some drawings on the wall to prove it. very very cool. he keeps wine in there which are like.. a million years old. i think i remember one 1800++ kind. thats way old. there is a photo where u can see mum and dad posing with a grimy old box with cobwebs. thats the one!

my year was a particularly bad year for them (1992) so all the wine during that time was really bad and cheap. haha! oh well so much for collecting your birthyear wine thing.

there was this guy selling his homemade cheese and he makes everyone try it. so we went to try too. it was really cool he just scraps off some from the surface with this cheese scraper thing and we get to eat flakes of cheese. its quite old and salty but quite nice. parents bought some back :)