Thursday, June 30, 2005
Missing Blog?
Thought I saved a blog entry fro 19-25 June, but obviously not! So ... what was I doing that week? Um, it was very hot, I remember that, but I did manage to do quite a few little bike rides: either before 8am or after 9pm though, as any other time of day was just too hot!! We spent Friday in Amboise - market, chateau and Clos Luce (where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last 3 years of his life) - all very pleasant, but again, the heat was just too much!! And on Saturday night we went to Chaumont to watch the Feux de St Jean - basically a summer festival held around the time of the summer solstice, to welcome in the summer, which means a local BBQ, dodgy folk band, and a 20ft bonfire that was pretty spectacular, but wisely constructed out of some plant/tree that burnt very quickly - good job as they didn't light it til about 11pm, and after we sat mesmorised by the flames for half an hour, once it was burnt to the ground, the locals then got on with bopping the night away to dodgy 70s & 80s Uk/American music!
PS - Reading Corner - have finished the Barney Thomson series by Douglas Lindsey - very very good!!!
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Thought I saved a blog entry fro 19-25 June, but obviously not! So ... what was I doing that week? Um, it was very hot, I remember that, but I did manage to do quite a few little bike rides: either before 8am or after 9pm though, as any other time of day was just too hot!! We spent Friday in Amboise - market, chateau and Clos Luce (where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last 3 years of his life) - all very pleasant, but again, the heat was just too much!! And on Saturday night we went to Chaumont to watch the Feux de St Jean - basically a summer festival held around the time of the summer solstice, to welcome in the summer, which means a local BBQ, dodgy folk band, and a 20ft bonfire that was pretty spectacular, but wisely constructed out of some plant/tree that burnt very quickly - good job as they didn't light it til about 11pm, and after we sat mesmorised by the flames for half an hour, once it was burnt to the ground, the locals then got on with bopping the night away to dodgy 70s & 80s Uk/American music!
PS - Reading Corner - have finished the Barney Thomson series by Douglas Lindsey - very very good!!!
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