Bill "boulet", wedding, sardines & stuff

Sorry if this post is a bit messy...

One week end ago, I managed to catch up with a few people, was busy actually... The Friday was dedicated to the visit of Aurelie&Nicolas (congrats Aurelie for the PhD submission!!!), which was the occasion to stay at Amelie's place in Dijon, accompanied by Donn&Jen and Mike (Donn's twin brother). We went for some wine tasting, and what a great evening it was! We had the chance to taste great wines, with some "Grand crus", the highest quality standard in France (should I say in the world? :D). The winemaker dude was fantastic and so funny: amongst many other things, he was found of ... sardines! He had hundreds different cans of sardines, and a special "maturing cellar"... Indeed, apparently, canned sardines are best after 6 years of maturing, when the bones are completely disolved. And be carefull, in order to get the sardines of the highest quality, you have to flip the can every 6 month to insure no pieces are out of the oil for too long!

The best is that at the end, the dude was a bit drunk, and was almost giving us bottles... In general, the opposite is the rule, and the winemaker tries to get you drunk so you buy more of his wines... After, I went to my familly for a couple of days, with some more wine&food programmed. Was good to see back my grandparents, in a much better shape than when I last saw them...

And then , I catched back with Marie&Denis (pectin addicts), and Bill... The later has a more scattered brain than I have, which is bad! Basically, he was supposed to arrive Monday, and to stay the week in Nantes, where I was gonna join at the end of the week... Marie waited 4 hours at the train station, and got worried cos Bill was not anwering to the many emails she was sending... And of course impossible to call him... Eventually, she managed to get in touch with him (via Massey University!), when Bill told her he was arriving ... next Monday... He just told us the wrong week... I wasn't very surprised by that, actually... Eventually, I got new tickets, and went to Nantes the next Monday. Bill was feeling very guilty after that, and invited us to the restaurant! :p

I week later, it was Severine&Etienne's wedding, with Severine being an old friend of Stephanie. Again, that was more a eat&drink week end, you can't imagine how fat I am! ;o) But staying at the Maureau's, some physical activity was mandatory, and we fitted a multi-pitch route and 2 mountain bike tours in the week end, even with an average weather..