Auswanderer Quatsch

Another picture of our summer vacation in France. This was taken on the same evening we walked the “Shore Path” near the Pointe-du-Raz. The weather was gorgeous (the last  sunny day actually) but the water was ice cold. It’s only in the evening that some dark clouds showed up… but it did not rain. We set our tent as close from the dunes as it can be in order to protect it from the heavy wind… and we had a peaceful night. The sunset was gorgeous (picture soon to come :]), almost as nice as the “land sailers ballet” during low tide in the morning!

Yet another picture post. Those pictures were taken this summer in Paris (on Notre-Dame‘s day). Beside the cool sunset, the clear view of Paris and the nice company, THE highlight of the moment was really THAT guy!

THAT guy climbed up on a fence, took his teeshirt off and started playing with a football. High perched on a his one square meter stone barrier, he ended up (still playing with his ball) hanging up-side-down from a street lamp, cheered by a crowd of devouring women (nice six packs) and amateur photographers (oh come on, fall down we’re ready).

No… the guy was really good and even exchanged a couple business cards at the end of his show… when he got back down from the street lamp…

As already stated somewhere in a previous post, we were in Brittany this summer. One of the places I wanted to go to was the “Pointe du raz”, a spike of land looking west a couple miles south from Brest that would be France’s westernmost point if the “Pointe de Corsen”, located a few kilometers north, did not exist. Anyway, accessing the place was a fun long drive on a narrow road. We parked a few kilometers back and walked for a couple hours on the “Sentier des Douaniers” - a walking path following the coastline along the whole French coast – to reach the place.

With such a great weather we had a wonderful line of sight. The Island of Sein that you can see in the back is only visible with such a great weather.

As you can see, Mlle V. is carrying the backpack, that’s why I only took the Lx3 there although the weather was so gorgeous. Why is that? Simply because I had messed up my shoulder pretty bad playing silly on the beach a couple days earlier (did not require any stitches but that was a close call) and could not carry anything on the right shoulder without risking to open the flesh again. So we walked “light” leaving the reflex and its objectives in the car…

Below is the view looking west, you can see La Vieille’s lighthouse and the Sein’s Island.

The view looking north. This view, with a couple boats, clouds geometry, strange cliffs and one lonely fence was nothing less enjoyable!

Definitely worth going there

Those of you following me on twitter or facebook know it already, I’m in vacation for 3 days, sick, tired, but happy anyway.

I slept 12 hours each of the past 2 nights, spent at least 5 hours napping during the day and did nothing constructive beside reading “the cryptonomicon”, avoiding nasty falling glands (is that the correct translation?) and preparing a nice campfire to host chicken legs, potatoes and chestnuts… yeap, that’s what I call vacations

But what I was really looking forward to was to gather enough strength to ride the heavy iron-made canoe a couple hundred meters away towards Switzerland (I’m at the Constance Lake – “Bodensee” in german), rest there as long as I can, take a few pictures, play with my iPhone and (hopefuly) never have to come back.

Well I am back – unfortunately – but that was at least as nice as expected. I’ll go out again tonight.

In the meantime, posting from the iPhone is nice but not as easy and convinient as it could be so… I’ll cut the internet connection, lay back and enjoy the lake while you look at those pictures and (hopefuly) curse me for sending this while you’re stuck at work…

Ps: any comments regarding the new form of this blog or the format of the posts written from the iphone are good to take, fire at will