perouge!

Perouge is a little town accessible 30 minutes by train from lyon. When i mean little, I really mean little. There are only 80 people living in perouge. We got off at meximieux and walked to perouge.

Nice flowers. Europe has nice roadside flowers. Nicer than the bouganvillas we see in sg. -___-


View of Perouge. Perouge is on top of a hill, and there were no maps at the gare, so we had to ask for directions to the town.


Perouge is a medieval town, and all the buildings are made of rocks.


Some prince's garden.


Church in perouge.


This is a famous square in Perouge, because it's illuminated in the day by the sun. The people there used to worship the sun.


Sun dial. It reads: Je ne te marque roi que l'heures des beaux jours.


Some well.


One of the entrances.




Sheeps.


Another well.



This is one of the specialities of Perouge- the galette.


Yang fang and wanqing with their galettes.
We bought a piece each for 1 euro/piece and it was really good. I loved it, and we were planning to get a big galette, but we didn't in the end.


This is the shop where we bought the galette. It's just a bakery inside, and you have to knock on the window and ask for a piece of galette to buy.


Corns hanging from someone's roof.

We finished perouge in about 1 hour, so we made our way down to meximieux.



Cathedral in meximieux.

We went to find the chateau there...



we walked up another hill, and when we got there, we found out we couldn't get in because the chateau has been converted into a private night club. BAH!!!!!!

We then went over to the cimetiere (cemetery)

Over here, you can buy a plot of land, and you and your entire family will be buried in the piece of land together. Very different from singapore, where you buy a little box and a selection of your remains will be kept there, haha.


We had a picnic at the cimetiere because there was grass and a good view of perouge. Nice.


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Ok, I'm getting lazy to blog because I've got too many things to settle. Will be going to swiss on friday (lucerne, lausanne and geneva), berlin on monday, and budapest on thursday.

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Jay chou's birthday.


We surprised Jay chou on his birthday (14/2) with a birthday cake, and loads of balloons.


:)

Ok, last but not least, a picture of my yummy dinner on sunday night.

My first beef dish was quite a success. Could have been better with some beef sauce.