Coco, I have been trying to help a friend find an apartment in Burgundy, and I had recommended your place in Dijon. Unfortunately, the dates she had planned were blacked out on your site for the second and third week in June when she looked. Now, those dates appear to be open. Is that a mistake, or can I tell her to contact you?

Thanks,

Dick

I just (virtually) spoke to Coco this morning and I do believe that she said it was free in June.

If it's free sign me up - i thought Coco was charging for the flat but free sounds great!

Pal I would love to welcome all of you here for free if I was rich enough to afford it but with a 20 year mortgage...
Dick I'm glad I came here before going to bed since my email has been out of order for a couple of hours now. Sorry you had to hijack the forum for me.
I indeed had a cancellation for a 20 night booking in June, then your friend is more than welcome. Hope I'll get my email back to work tomorrow.
Thanks a lot and good night
coco

Coco Cheeerie: waiting to hear about you and your family's Docklands experience and London - or haven't you gone yet?

Hi Pal, I can tell you 3 days(not even) are way too short.
On arrival we crossed the Thames to go to Covent Garden (I always change cash at the same little shop there) and then took the tube to go to the War museum in Lambeth North (Bakerloo line). The boys loved it, it is quite a shock when you enter, to see all those war machines, tanks, planes in that huge room. The reconstruction of history was great, the rooms were so real, someone could have appeared in their 40’s clothes and the music very moving …
We were so closed from Elephant and Castle (where I stayed for several months) that I wanted to show them. The shopping mall is just as I left it, with a little clothes market around it.
We bought sweets at Woolworth’s where the sales person was French and happy to talk with us (not many French there !)
We then took the tube and DLR to East India station to find our hotel (Travelodge, my review in French here http://tinyurl.com/3e2uqy )

We went back to the « center » by DLR and bus (n°15 near Tower Hill) Léo loved the DLR (as you supposed so) and always managed to have a seat in the front. We went back to the hotel at midnight (both nights actually).
The next full day we went to Camden Town, unfortunately not even half the shops were open and then we took a bus to High Street Kensington to do some shopping and headed to the Natural history museum (still great and much too big to go to the Science Museum afterwards, we’ll go there another time). We went to Buckingham Palace, had a late picnic in St James’s park, the boys were happy to play in the grass and see squirrels and birds.
We then headed to 10 Downing street (someone was passing the gates). The horse guards were not on duty… But the boys climbed on the lions in Trafalgar square before taking a bus to Oxford Street to buy a few souvenirs. Went back to Camden Town just in case (too late it was almost 8pm).
We then tryed the Pizza hut near Charing Cross (my boys have never been there) and were sooo pleased they could do their own ice cream ! Back to the hotel around midnight again.
On the last morning after checking out, we went to Greenwich to the Maritime Museum, very quiet at 10am, and we left just before at least 3 schools were about to come in !
We couldn’t see the Cutty Sark which was being renovated (till 2009 !). Already time to head to Waterloo, last stroll in Covent garden and good bye London.
BTW the weather was great!8-)

sounds like 3 busy fun-filled days. I was going to go to the Imperial War Museum last February and even passed by it but didn't have time. Your positive about it makes me single it out again. And Greenwich is wonderful.

Salut

And I felt ashamed when I thought I had been passing very near the War museum, on my way from Elephant and Castle to Covent Garden where I worked almost every day for 6 or 7 months. I always thought it would be too technical for young children (and for me!) until I read a report on Fodors (thanks kraav).
Better late than never!quot;>

<I just (virtually) spoke to Coco this morning and I do believe that she said it was free in June>

Coco sounds like you said it was free to stay in June - sign me up. any vacancies still for free stays in June?

> any vacancies still for free stays in June?< on the 31st June only! ;-)

Coco Cheeerie: sign me up for the 31st - what time is check out on the 1st so i can get up and eat the breakfast i guess is included and evacuate the premises.

Kudos to the French lycee and school system - Sylvain is on the honors list at one of the US' toughest engineering schools - i think French schools at least for those who go to the science and math school like he did prepare students very well.