This evening after watching Inspecteur Barnaby (Midsomer Murders in English) Wouter took Cassy for a walk and then came back and said there was a festival going on in the town square. So we headed on down to see some live stage performances by a group doing Latin American dancing, singing, playing the music etc, all with colourful costumes. Very nice. Of course we didn't take the camera but photos would not have done justice to the performance from the distance we were from the stage.
It was interesting to stand at the back and be an observer also of the crowd – in NZ people would have jumped up and been dancing to the rhythmic and mesmerising music, but most people just watched and clapped at the end of each segment.
It’s around 28 degrees here (sorry Aucklanders!) and almost midnight as I write this. It was lovely to walk down to the square, which is 3 minutes away, and just stand amongst the crowd and not feel chilly. But this weather spawns thunder very easily so we have to keep an eye out on our skylight window.
Apparently France closes down in August as everyone goes on holiday somewhere else (if they are from the sea they go to the mountains, and vice versa) so I think the already slow wheels of bureaucracy will grind to a halt over the next 4 weeks – reminds me of NZ in January about 15-20 years ago.
More soon on the property front.
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