Saturday Evening at Palavas

That's the second week end we spend some time at Palavas. Last week we visited the city by night and enjoyed the harbor, a Jazz band playing for tourists and a fishermen's church (like all churches in a port city).
Today we went to enjoy a firework on the beach.

 

Palavas Fireworks

 

Jazz Manouche in Lunel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_manouche

What's best to finish a good week end than a Jazz Festival?
We decided to drive to Lunel to enjoy an outside Jazz concert and totally enjoyed it!

 

Tzigalo at Lunel Jazz Festival

Gipsy Jazz

 

Fighting the Evil - Place Jean Hugo - Lunel

 

Total cuteness

Twix can be cute when he wants to, can't he ? ;)

A visit in the countryside ...

Today we visited a winery in the countryside which had a vineyard museum explaining how things were done back in the day. Very interesting machinery !

This is a wagon used back in the day for pesticides.
















An old winepress :) I can just see Lucy now ! ... Remember that episode ?:)























The museum/shop entrance ... along with the retired tractor from Chicago !






















The grand entrance of the Chateau.

A close up of the Chateau






















The green-ness of the fields.






















This year's crop are looking good !






















Grapes are a good size ... had to put Heidi in the picture to show you the proper scale ;)

How to spend your Saturday evening in the south of France ;)

Walking along the port city of Carnon we happened upon this poster, announcing the Miss Languedoc-Roussillon contest in the evening. Ok, ok. So we knew about it beforehand, and decided to go anyway. Getting there too early, we did have a great walk around the port, and ate some tremendous kebabs (sorry, no picture because they were so good we never put them down to pull out the camera) .... mouth-watering to the last bite !!

We then managed to stand around for an hour while they presented Miss France 2006 (who is also Miss Languedoc-Roussillon from last year as well), and prior Misses from different nearby regions from years past (when time forgot them :P), and then the 12 contestants for the evening. It was a first. Something that we were around for, and thus, stuck around to find out how the life of those pageant girls could be. ... Well, at least contestant #11 had an interesting "dress" ...............

Patriotic day, Bolivia's Independence Day

Today's a special day: Bolivia's Independence Day. ... As well as Tia Cookie's birthday in New Zealand, and Marcelle Guenin's birthday in France :) Happiness all over the world :)

Well, we decided to go to the botanical gardens in Montpellier with the Bolivian flag in the back window :)

















This one's just interesting :) A shot that Matt didn't want to miss.
 

Happy Birthday Jeanne!

3 months old today!
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Where the heck is Matt?

Well, that's another Matt :(

We did travel quite a lot but not to that extend, and I never though of dancing in front of each monument we visited. Go and check Matt's web site (the other Matt)

http://wherethehellismatt.com/


Your Matt is still in France with his lovely wife.