My niece, Nelly, had a wonderful wedding with 180 guests. Family members from both sides helped with the week preparation, decoration of the Salle des Fetes . A very hot day, fortunately the delicious chocolate cake did not melt!
Eauze, Roman left their prints
History tells us about the Roman invasion, archeologists are working long hours searching for objects, houses and even cities buried underground. I happened to be staying with a good friend in Eauze; near Auch, when a visit of the fouilles romaines and of the museum was offered by the town. it was very interesting, I had forgotten how the Roman lived and built their home, for the time they were very advanced showing good engineering technics. great to have long summer days as we gathered in the evening on the city place where the Mayor offered a cold dinner and free drinks....a replica of the emperor costume found in the wall of the Cafe de France was given to the cafe owner ....the chief archeologist was honoured and named Citoyen d honneur de la ville d Eauze; we had a fabulous time!
I love this area of le Gers, there are a multitude of country roads with no traffic at all , going through hills, vineyards, pretty valleys
Marciac Jazz Festival
August is the month for the renowned international Jazz festival in the small town of Marciac in the Gers department. Jazz supporters come from all over Europe and to accomodate the crowd, locals are renting rooms in their home , including breakfast for a fee between 35 and 50 euros for a twin, pretty good.
Filming and photography were not allowed at the big concerts, I let you google the big names I was so lucky to enjoy their show
Omar Sosa playing his south america flavoured jazz with the German national Big Band
Roy Hargrove , Roberta Gambarini
Wynton marsalis
Paquito D Riviera
Richard Galliano
Ibrahim Maalouf jazz with oriental flavour gives you goose pimples
Alexandre Tassel
Paolo Fresu
It is 2 weeks of jazz with flavours from music of the world. In the streets and on the city place free concerts are on all day till 2am. a great atmosphere with art exhibitions and stalls for all.
Le Tour de France
We are all so proud and excited with the winner of the Tour de France, Cadel Evans! The French love him.
Corbieres
Summer time is holiday time, the worse time to be in South of France, lots of traffic even on the smallest country roads, not worth hanging around, better head back to my base in the Pyrennees travelling through the Corbieres. To avoid Montpellier and Bezier, I get on the autoroute, it is very windy and a huge storm hits the travellers; impossible to see anything...
I made it to Narbonne where I catch up with a friend from Brisbane.
Travelling through the Corbieres is quite enjoyable, no tourist here; at one stage I must have taken the wrong road in a village , I find myself on a very narrow road along a gorge; it is so pretty that I decide to keep going as eventually it will take me to a place.... a more important road, a village.... no traffic at all... so good!
Provence
Enough with the rain, got to cancel my trip to Vichy and the Center of France to head South for a bit of sunshine. To get out quick in between showers I use the autoroute - expensive but fast - finally I can take off the wet weather gear in Valence, and follow country roads towards Gap and Avignon where I stay with friends who used to live in cairns it is lovely to hear the cigalles singing (cycad), pretty villages...lime rocks standing on the garrigue....
La feria, catch the bull if you can!
A trip in a Jaguar is cooler than the bike
Great festivities in Avignon , street theatres and music....
Great festivities in Avignon , street theatres and music....
Radar
Automatic radars are everywhere .... the good news is that a large sign announces them so are the GPS; a large number of motorists are caught, you just wonder where the drivers are looking at if they cant see these signs!!! The French government was going to remove them but thousand of motorcyclists protested, the result is that the signs are going to be replaced by a new one that will give your speed; of course the radar will be further down the track
French Alps
Riding through Geneve to return to France was a hell of a ride, beeing pushed out of my lane by flash expensive cars. pedestrian have right of way and they step on the road at the crossing without checking if the traffic has time to stop; I nearly collected a tall black fellow
view over the Lac Leman from La route des Cols
I rode many mountains near Annemasse until dark as rain was predicted for the coming days
Indeed, it rained, went bushwalking with a friend and we got soaked
Charms of Switzerland
Jura
The jura s mountains are not very high but there are some awsome roads for riding on a sunny day, when it rains it is a very cold, cold country.....
nice curves
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