Archive for the 'Colour' Category
Free the Amstel Free
While you can now get Cobra Alcohol-Free beer quite easily in supermarkets in this country, the nation’s pubs are hamstrung by a bewildering attachment to no-alco beers from the bad old days like [makes signs of the cross] Kaliber and Clausthauler and Bitberger (pronounced Shitberger: fact). I get that sinking feeling as I scan behind [...]
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Tags: Amstel, Amstel free, beer, France, noirmoutier, non-alcoholic, vendee
Play Misty for Me
I took about 500 or so photos on holiday (I like to add them up and think in terms of how many rolls of film it would have been, and how much it would cost to develop them the analogue way), but they were mostly snapshots of course, holiday snaps, taken in large quantities in [...]
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Tags: dawn, France, loire-atlantique, marais, mist, vendee
Dark Skies
Sometimes I upload a photo just to see what colour background the Monotone theme will give it.
This picture is all about microclimate: you can see the dark clouds behind, which was what the weather was like on mainland France. Meanwhile, on our side of the island, we were able to spend most of the day [...]
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Tags: France, microclimate, noirmoutier, vendee
French Cuisine
I love French women – I married one – and there other aspects of French culture I love. For example, I admire the way that French people will happily sit on shitty plastic garden furniture to eat al fresco. After all, it’s the being outside and the eating and the company that matters in all [...]
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Tags: cuisine, food, France, noirmoutier, restaurant
Turbo
This windfarm near Beauvoir-sur-Mer, on the way to Noirmoutier via the gois, was signposted as a parc éoliennes, which seems a much nicer term than wind farm. You could drive right up to them, park up and see how bloody huge they are, and listen to the noise they make.
Some people object to them on [...]
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Tags: éolienne, energy, France, turbine, vendee, wind
The first of Dune
Noirmoutier used to be known as the Île d’Her, it says here, er her, which explains why the cycle hire place was called Cycle Her and why there were various shops called Something d’Her. We just rented a house for a week in the village of Barbatre, which is on part of the island I’ve [...]
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Tags: beach, beach holidays, dunes, France, ile d'her, noirmoutier, sand, vendee
Hiatus
There is still a good half term to go in the school year, and the summer will be a very short one (only five and a half weeks, which is a right swizz). The last half term is eight weeks plus, which is two weeks longer than you can really stand. I’ve lost a lot [...]
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Tags: beach, beach holidays, british summer, Nostalgia
