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The temperature's finally cooled down a bit, which has enabled me to switch my computer back on again. The darned thing is worse than a heater !!!

So I promised news from my short holiday last week. There goes !!!

Wednesday I left for Carnac to join my parents who'd been there since the day before. The day started off pretty well, cool weather, sun behind a few clouds which was good considering the heat wave we'd had until then. All was going well, until... yes, until I got onto the train station. To my utter bewilderment, the train was going to be 25 minutes late !!! *Irony filter engaged* Oh my gosh, this is something that never happens usually with the SNCF !!! This was such a bummer especially since I only had 10 minutes to change trains in Nantes !!! *Irony filter disengaged*

*Oooh, I have this sudden urge for corned beef ...*

*No, am not pregnant*

So the nice man at the counter gave me this new itinerary ("free of charge !" oh, gee, thanks a fucking lot !!!) And I dicovered with glee that (oh joy) I had to wait over 2 hours in Nantes...

Apart from that I got to Carnac alright, enjoyed the beach, the 26°C heated swimming pool, dunking my baby sis. I also met up wit François, with whom I was going to spend the weekend in Carhaix, at the Vieilles Charrues. It felt kinda weird, but it was all back to normal after the first minute, during which I got dissed for always being early.

Honestly ! Screw the world !!! What do you give if I get places early ? My frigging business !!!

Anyway, next day, more sun, more pool, more shopping (I didn't buy anything !!!)

My folks left the next morning, and I wlaked along the beach in Carnac, roasting on the rocks, and waiting for o'clock, time at which I was supposed to François and his brother, whom we were going with.

Got dissed again for being on time (fuck fuck fuck !!!)

Then we headed out into the great wilderness.

An hour and a half later, we got to the parking lot - second to farthest from the entrance - of course ! Then, half an hour of walk in the heat to the site. Luggage got checked again, then another half hour to find a camp site that wasn't overflowing. We ended up in ***camping number 5*** - remember the number... Set up the tents, then drag ourselves back down to the concert site.

From then on it was just neat. I discovered new bands such as Shout Out Louds and dEUS, as well as Yann Tiersen, which is really really great ! Was disappointed with Raphael, who showed up on stage with tracksuit pants and a shapeless tshirt. His songs are not really cut out for a festival like this where songs have to have a lot of rythm.

"Clou du spectacle" of Friday : Placebo. What can I say ? Just great !

Saturday :

Good bands - Cowboys Fringants, Cali (spectacular, the man is a true artist, he slammed into the crowd for almost 5 minutes. One of the best shows !) Editors and Madness, which I truly loved. I guess for this last one, you have to speak English a little to really get into the groove. Ah well, I enjoyed it a lot !

Crap shows - Jamel Debbouzec, as he joked. This was a music festival, not cut out for stand up artists. He pent his time telling 40 000 people to sit down, and went on about how we shouldn't blame the guys from the cités. We left quickly.

Sunday : most bloody tiring day ever.

Woke up, went to the loo and heard people saying that the police weren't letting people out without their ID. Forgot quickly about it. Turned out that the police had squared off ***camping number 5*** (remember ? Our camp site ?) Because someone had apparently died ! So we started queuing at the exit so that they would take our depositions - stood over an hour in the heat and smell of piss (by the way, why can guys go pee in toilets, like other normal humain beings, ie women ???) An hour later we managed to squirm out of the line. Turns out this woman had OD'd between thursday an friday -meaning she'd spent two whole days decomposing in the sun... Ickky !

Concerts : saw Olivia Ruiz - she sucks big time. Learned new lyrics to her songs, pretty cool !

We then went back to our tents, packed up and went to the car and back to drop our junk cos we were leaving the same night. Julien Clerc from far away was pretty good, I knew most of the songs ("Femmes, je vous aime..." Niark niark niark)

Tracy Chapman was wonderful (cf previous note) and the Pixies just blew my mind ("where is my mind"). One hell of a concert !!!

From then on we went back to Carnac, deeply appreciated the shower (did I mention I hadn't washed in three full days ???) Got a cold during the night because I fell asleep with wet hair, which has turned into Bronchitis - my favourite illness ! Thankfully I still have a few pills to treat it.

So now I'm home alone with the cat (who danced the fandango on my bed from 3am onwards). I'll be leaving for Brittany early tomorrow morning - cool weather here I come !!!!

I'm also happy cos I got news from My new boss, I know when I'm starting and stuff, and I'm going to search for appartements next week Thursday !

Now I'm also kinda starving, and I have to go prepare my own food...

I hope you're all doing ok, and have a good time on Saturday !!!

 

Cheers !