bordeaux day 5 trip

and off to bordeaux on the train we go!! bordeaux is read bor-door

took a really long time to figure out the tickets, but we made it!

that is the bullet train we are to take.

its a really smooth ride really, but sometimes it goes so fast you ears pop. its only then you realise how fast you really are going.

i like the train stations in paris

its always cold and drafty

maybe i'm not suited to live in singapore! i like the cold weather. cold is good!

on reaching there we got our own rented car and figured our way to the hotel

it was kind of off the highway and looked like some sort of old warehouse

no joke. add that with the fact it is surrounded with car showrooms

you really would think its  warehouse!

anyway the hotel is really new and hence we got a good deal out of it.

i was suppose to get this extra bed in the room

but there was some miscommunication and me and my mum and the lady at the reception ( she was the only one working that night! imagine how scary that is!)

so we 3 had to haul up mattress and all 2 floors up. it was kind of comical.. other than the fact we got locked out of our own room cuz my dad fell asleep when he was suppose to help us open the door! D<

well the bed was awesome to sleep on so i'm not complaining!

the poor lady, i hope they got more workers to work with her at night!

she had to run down the stairs for the phone every few minutes..

anyway before all that we went out to the countryside for a ride.

bordeaux is like a city with amazing rolling greens just off of the city.

i love how its just a few hours ride away! well dad had to pose with the magnum size wine there

oh did i mention we are in bordeaux for dad and his wine fetish, hence no more art talk but more of my nature shots now!

this is a classic chateu ( read cha as in chalet and teu as "tow") its basically big mansions which are really cool haha. i'll get more photos up on them when we go onto the next day and our chateu trips.

as promised here are all my plant photography

ass took when i was waiting to have dinner at one of the wonderful restraunts( and it was a pretty good deal for the food!)

anyway in order left to right up to down

1. its some hairy lookin weed that i though looked cute.. maybe if it had more water droplets it would have looked nicer, or i had a more contrasting backdrop, or i coudl control my damn focus!

2. leaf + water droplet= ying zhi and camera go kacheek

3. the grass had an awesome sun setting light on it, it probably looks kind of dull so small, but when i look at it at a rather large size it looks really nice! i think the light really brought out the bright greeness

4. those are actually baby grapes! yeap vineyards and strewn all across the countryside.

5.rose. they just grow quite naturally unlike in singapore! my mum says roses are grown near the grapes as they are really delicate plants. so when there is any disease the roses would show symptoms really easily and the disease can be curbed ASAP.

6.this is some weird bumpy leaf with alot of water droplets. my focus once again was horribly off, but i think ater cropping it it looks really interesting! its knobbly and drippy and all shiny.

7. sunset! this is the only few sunsets i grabbed. no slash tat my one chance in the whole trip. since the sun sets really late we always end up being indoors for dinner during that time! the sun sets are REALLLY long so its kind of an awesome waste i didnt get much of it. i blame my dad D:

8. this is some flowers which have like white hair growing on their green stems and inside its actually yellow. haha i think it just looks pretty..

the fooooood! presentations awesome

taste even better!

1. mum's rack of lamb i don't really like lamb, but its ok. its got that mint jelly thing dripped onto the side!

2. appetiser--- farguar(sp?) it is actually duck liver. yes abit yucky sounding but its actually very rich and creamy. carn stomach much cause it gets abit sickenign after you eat too much. its a specialty of france though! so a must try.

3. my duck! i swear the french cook duck like heaven. it was ammmmmmaazing. i loved every bite i took!

4. dads asparagus and some sort of mushroom? was it? soup.

no.. the soup was sumthing rather exotic.. wad it a flower? i can't remember now. i know its really tasty though! awesome yummyness

the white thigny on the side is this foamy thing.. i think this is the mushroom. i forgot. either way it was a very unique dish and yummy.

this is a sunset i took desperately out of the car window cause i though my dad wouldn't stop!

but in the end he did

but i like how the light reflected off the car side. its kinda nice!

accidental amazing shots.

ok so tats all for bordeaux first day! would be going more indepth for the other posts.