Les Châteaux!!!

So it's been a busy end to the week! After wrapping up classes (which also included an intersing visit with some French students preparing to apply to the big business schools here in France, Wharton-esque), we've spent the last two days visiting the châteaux.

Saturday, we first stopped at the Caves of Vouvray for another dégustation du vin (wine tasting-middle right). It was incredible to see how many bottles of wine they store there-almost 4 million! After that, we had a nice pique-nique outside, and then made our way to Amboise, a château that dates to the 15/16th century (middle left) and is the burial spot for Leonardo da Vinci (bottom). After that, we were all pretty exhausted, and we headed home, but not before buying some delicious chocolates at a famous chocoloatier in the little village at Amboise. I was then fortunate enough to be invited to the birthday party of one of the nephew's of my French family-it was a blast playing with the little kids and speaking French with them and their relatives, but there's still nothing like my own cousins ;)

Today, we went first to Langeais (top), and after that, on to Blois. We had guided tours at both places with the same guy who did the wine tasting at the Institute, and I must say, he knows his stuff!

Tomorrow, we start up classes again, and we'll head to a supermarket to see how that all works here in France!

A bientôt

Peace