The Longest Day

It was good to have a busy day after yesterday's news which for obvious reason had a two fold impact on me. As we had to be on board the military transport to go up to the other village by 8.15am, there was no walk around the lake. The weather was fine and being at nearly 1000m, there was a freshness in the air. All went off according to plan and apart from the Young People's Mayor reading an address, the ceremony was much like any of the others. There was of course the same thing down in the village but with a tenor to sign the Marseillais, the sardane and an 'apéritif républican' in the square. Lunch was in a military bivouac set up by the group who'd provided the vehicles and Christian took his turn to serve up lunch. It was exceedingly hot and he was very tired at the end of it all. In the evening, after spending the rest of the afternoon with Alain who did some fine tuning on the ipods, we met Diana and her friend Ian for a quick drink. Neither of us had the energy to go down to the recreation ground to see the fireworks but we had a good view of them from le nid(nest)and they were really superb. Worthy of any big town.