{"id":998,"date":"2008-09-25T04:50:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:57:31","slug":"dijon-burgundy-and-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Dijon, Burgundy, and Paris 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sydneyventuresllc.com\/vac\/france2008\/slide_show\/index.htm\">Slide Show of all photos on the trip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We woke\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>25 September<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0to the threat of a dire storm moving up the east coast.\u00c2\u00a0 Strong winds and rain were sure to impact our trip plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Emy delivered us to the airport; we checked our bags (no fee since we are flying Envoy Class) and watched as the rain pelted the terminal.\u00c2\u00a0 But we left on time and arrived in Philadelphia on time.\u00c2\u00a0 For lunch we ate fried rice and bourbon chicken and orange chicken at the food court.\u00c2\u00a0 We browsed some of the shops and then retreated to the Envoy Departure Lounge and watched Philadelphia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weather degrade all afternoon as we waited for our departure from the huge windows overlooking the runway and international gates.<\/p>\n<p>After a very civilized wait, we were invited to board flight 754 for Charles de Gaulle. We had two center seats in business class, reclined for a great sleep and both of us were on the aisle.\u00c2\u00a0 The seat configuration in business class was two along the wall, an aisle, two in the middle, another aisle and two more along the other side.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as we were seated the flight attendant offered us mimosas or champagne.\u00c2\u00a0 After we took off, dinner was served, freshly tossed spinach salad, I had flat iron steak, Mike had lamb, and a sleeping pill.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time dessert was offered, we were asleep in the most comfortable seats known to the world. We awoke to a light breakfast of coffee, juice, yogurt with granola, and fresh fruit.\u00c2\u00a0 We passed on the apple tart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slide Show of all photos on the trip We woke\u00c2\u00a025 September\u00c2\u00a0to the threat of a dire storm moving up the east coast.\u00c2\u00a0 Strong winds and rain were sure to impact our trip plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Emy delivered us to the airport; we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[801,281,162,280,156,803,802],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burgundy","tag-crusing","tag-le-boat","tag-little-soane-river","tag-locks","tag-saille-river","tag-soane-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}