last week my dad turned 60!! We have celebrated this with the family at my brother's in Arsac (France). We've had a nice weekend with of course a visit to a chateau and good food:)
Siebren and I aarived on Saturday and we have visited Bordeaux in the afternoon. It is an old and beautiful city with a beautiful waterfront which they are still developing!! Parts of the city are now pedestrian zones, and a tram will take you from on side to the other side of the city center. We took a bus backl to Arsac, I am still a bit curous how often this bus is supposed to go... We had to wait quite a while!! In the evening Rogier has BBQ'd some meet local style. First on a super hot fire of grapebranches (?), and then cooking it on charcole. It was very yummie!!
Sunday was a quite day. My parents arrived in the afternoon and Siebren and I cooked for everybody. We spend some time playing with the Wii, and watched Rogier and Ivan do some bikecrossing! In the evening we watched pictures of the new appartment of my parents.
On MOnday it was super nice weather and instead of going out for lunch we decided to have lunch in the backyard in the sun!! Afterwards we visited a chateau of which I have forgotten the name... We had a nice tour and at the end we had the opportunity to try a wine from 2003 which shout be a great year because of the hot summer that year. Unfortunately, that wine was still a bit too young... Maybe in two years it will be great!
Tuesday we went for a ride through the region on the other side of Bordeaux. It was beautiful there. It reminded me a little of Tuscany. It has more hills than on the Arsac side. In Saint-Emilion (a very pretty town where you should not want to wear high heels) we had a warm wine with cinnamon! After that we went back to Bordeaux via one of the most famous and expensive chateaus, chatueau Petrus.
In Bordeaux we had a Birthday dinner in a very noce restaurant Rogier picked. On weekends it is full of people and they have musicians performing, and it ends up in a wild party! During the week, it is not very busy at all, but very nice and cosy. We had good food and a privat concert!! The host was a great singer!! So, all in all, a great birthday!
