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I am back to New York from the trip in France, Netherlands and Belgium...
It was a totally different trip than the last time in Europe three months ago. I had fun at both trips, but in totally opposite way.
I flied to Lyon at the night of 25th, Christmas, after a warmth and happy X'mas eve at Stephany's new home in Williamsburg.
After 8 hours flight and 4 hours waiting in London Heathrow airport, I arrived at 18:00 on the 26th in Lyon, France. 5 minutes to get through the customs, asking about the reason to go there; unlike other people used only 3 seconds to get into France.
Anyway, as I walked out the customs, Manu was waiting there, drove more than an hour to pick me up at Lyon airport. Then we drove back to his hometown, Saint Etienne, a city that located in the middle of mountain. At first, we were kind of awkward, because we met like a year ago, and only talked on MSN once in a while. But his English is getting so much better than the last time we met in NY, I was shocked but happy for him. After we arrived home sweet home, he served Foie Gras, a super huge portion that I never saw it in somewhere else. He showed me whatelse to go with FG with the best white wine. Afterward, his friends came over, 4 boys, we drank, chatted, smoked... till the night to the end. I went to bed directly after the long journey from NY to St. Etienne, France.
I slept through most of the mornings in St. Etienne for three days, as if I was taking day off at home. But since I did not plan out anything for this trip, I would like to just follow the winds, do whatever I feel like to do. Not in a hurry to some place to visit...
After Manu got back from work around 2pm, he took me out to do some sight seeing in St. Etienne, the mountain city, the origin of Loire. He invited friends to go to a bar with 14 people, but two girls only, we drank shots a lot, some handsome guy talked to me. He cooked dinner for me or had dinner with his family, 16 people at a table, that's a big crazy, isn't it !! The family dinner was amazing, three families at the same table: la soupe aux choux, pork, sausage, bread for entrée, then cheese, chocolate, cake and fruit with coffee and tea for the desserts till the end, lots of talking, chatting and eating from 7:30pm till 11:30pm, after a wonderful meal, we called it a night!!
The interesting thing was when you meet new people in a day, you have to greet everyone on the cheeks twice at the same table no matter you know each other or not and also the time when you leaving; so I was been greeting for three days everytime I met and left his friends and family. So I greeted 5 people the first day, 15 people the second day, 16 people the third day for twice..... funnnn
photos in St Etienne: http://www.pixnet.net/album/nicoleyu1/13407461
It was a totally different trip than the last time in Europe three months ago. I had fun at both trips, but in totally opposite way.
I flied to Lyon at the night of 25th, Christmas, after a warmth and happy X'mas eve at Stephany's new home in Williamsburg.
After 8 hours flight and 4 hours waiting in London Heathrow airport, I arrived at 18:00 on the 26th in Lyon, France. 5 minutes to get through the customs, asking about the reason to go there; unlike other people used only 3 seconds to get into France.
Anyway, as I walked out the customs, Manu was waiting there, drove more than an hour to pick me up at Lyon airport. Then we drove back to his hometown, Saint Etienne, a city that located in the middle of mountain. At first, we were kind of awkward, because we met like a year ago, and only talked on MSN once in a while. But his English is getting so much better than the last time we met in NY, I was shocked but happy for him. After we arrived home sweet home, he served Foie Gras, a super huge portion that I never saw it in somewhere else. He showed me whatelse to go with FG with the best white wine. Afterward, his friends came over, 4 boys, we drank, chatted, smoked... till the night to the end. I went to bed directly after the long journey from NY to St. Etienne, France.
I slept through most of the mornings in St. Etienne for three days, as if I was taking day off at home. But since I did not plan out anything for this trip, I would like to just follow the winds, do whatever I feel like to do. Not in a hurry to some place to visit...
After Manu got back from work around 2pm, he took me out to do some sight seeing in St. Etienne, the mountain city, the origin of Loire. He invited friends to go to a bar with 14 people, but two girls only, we drank shots a lot, some handsome guy talked to me. He cooked dinner for me or had dinner with his family, 16 people at a table, that's a big crazy, isn't it !! The family dinner was amazing, three families at the same table: la soupe aux choux, pork, sausage, bread for entrée, then cheese, chocolate, cake and fruit with coffee and tea for the desserts till the end, lots of talking, chatting and eating from 7:30pm till 11:30pm, after a wonderful meal, we called it a night!!
The interesting thing was when you meet new people in a day, you have to greet everyone on the cheeks twice at the same table no matter you know each other or not and also the time when you leaving; so I was been greeting for three days everytime I met and left his friends and family. So I greeted 5 people the first day, 15 people the second day, 16 people the third day for twice..... funnnn
photos in St Etienne: http://www.pixnet.net/album/nicoleyu1/13407461
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