Strawberrypip's blog: July 2006

French around the fire, there was a group of about 8 of us, but this piccie came out best, so here are some random french people for you!
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Fire poi on the beach
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Crabs! ..and yes to the left, that is the sea!
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A photo I took at Palavas beach. :)
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Another project down the road, the website attached was http://www.madart.fr
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A close up pic of the stairs on the same mural.
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This i thought was a really impressive mural! The question is, what's real and what's painted. The clue is that the reflection of the cathedral (which was indeed opposite it), is painted!
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Time to go home after all the fireworks, I thought it made a nice view!
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This would be the huge number of people also going to the firework displays, but on foot, through the 'New Montpellier' area, Antigone.
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This is the main street through Montpellier centre on Bastille day as the traffic makes it's way to the firework displays.
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Place de la Canourgue - this is probably my favourite spot in Montpellier, it's my sit with a book and watch the world go by spot!
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The Aquaduct of St Clement - 880m, built in the 1800s apparently..
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Place de Peyrou, a statue of the 'Emperor' Louis XIV (it's actually an 1838 replacement of a previous one from 1692 which had been destroyed in the revolution) and a view of the Arc.
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Montpellier's Arc de Triompf
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The Nimes insignia - also on the inside of the ampitheatre!
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I wasn't sure if i could pull this off, but it seems alright. This is a photo of a 3D-holographic gladiator fight. I thought it was cool!
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The inside of the ampitheatre, although they were setting up for a big concert in the centre. I love that this is still getting used as a venue!
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Nimes Ampitheatre - I must admit, when it got to doing the historical tour, I took the safe option of english to listen to...paying and then possibly not understanding which words I didn't know and which words were specialised seemed too big a risk.
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This was me playing with the camera in Nimes, I quite like the piccie, so you get to see it too!
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Actually, I was on my own, so I was standing there, camera around my neck, listening to Muse..but sometimes the "Oooooh's" got through!
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Come on everyone! "Oooooh!"
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Nadja, John and Me in a little pancake place in the historic town.
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Hmm, okay i'll try and get this right, this is again at Ayres Rock, a little later in the night, after many photos. Left to right, there's Nadja, then Samuel, Linda, Marcel and Danielle - all four of whom are Swiss. There's been ALOT of Swiss here.
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Our local baker, who we see every day for our break for the daily pastry! She now laughs whenever i enter and asks 'Pain au Chocolat?'
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Scary photo of me - but, and this is rare, a tanned me!
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Nadja, Vincent (from Germany) and Marco. We managed to find some shade for lunch, it might have only been 33C or something in the shade! (It was 37C that day!)
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Place de la Comedie has some alternative to the bright sunshine with the fountain and shade...all the better in the evening though!
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This is the 'Olympic Swimming Pool in the Antigone'....i suppose that's cool...what's funnier (and going back to the Antigone name again) is that it isn't ACTUALLY an olympic pool!! The architects designed it as one, but for some reason, the builders managed to lose 5cm of the length of the pool, so it can't be used in olympic games for being too short!!!
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The modern section doesn't look like it is in the same city. It's named after a Greek Tragedy for some reason (I think the mayor liked greek stories)...however many Montpellier residents have thought it quite apt as the Antigone here has been a disaster all by itself!
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