Days 6 and 7

Hello from Bordeaux. We arrived yesterday after a long time bouncing from train to train. Eventually we arrived in Bordeaux and hunted down our hotel. Bad news was no free internet. 6 euro for 1 hour of internet is ridiculous, but that is what I am paying at the moment. With that said, I doubt I will be able to upload much but I'll give it a shot.

Day 6 was not much fun. We left Pamplona around 10:00 in the morning and had to switch trains while still in Spain to a little short run train that crossed the border. Luckily for us we found the that transfer train, despite the fact that it was about a quarter of a mile from the first train, with no indications of which way to go. Once we crossed the border we met a host of other foreigners backpacking. Many of them had no plans, no reservations, just a europass and a backpack. We met one guy named David who was a student at the University of Texas. He was on his last two weeks of a two month trip. He informed us that giving the longhorn hand symbol is like flipping someone off in Europe. So although I doubt I would have been tossing up the horns, it was good to know. He also informed us that it seemed to him that French people would go out of their way to not speak English. He told us that at several large tourist areas they will have translations for plaques in Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Japenese, and Chinese, and no English.

Day 7 - Today we took a City tour from a bus. What David told us has seemed somewhat true so far. When I asked a person, in French, if they spoke english, he responded "sometimes". I can definately tell that the French DO NOT like speaking english, and they especially dont like being asked if they speak english IN english.

We booked a 12kilometer walking vineyard tour for tomorrow. I am going to try and take pictures from my phone so I can find a Wifi hotspot and update the blog. I'd love to add some of our pictures we've taken today, but my hour is going to run out soon and I still have some emails to shoot out. Glad everyone seems to be liking the blog.