28 May 2013

The one where we lost Fulvia... Or rather, Fulvia lost herself! The day dawned wetly and we all enjoyed a nice social breakfast, and made our own sandwiches on a table laden with fillings!


The Coach full of singers headed out to a wonderful place indeed ... Probably Eds favorite bit of the trip! Who cares if its raining when you are going to find out all about Calvados!


And so we had a tour of the place were they do wonderful things to apples, bar the bit they give freely to local pigs to make them taste nice! Ed and Cat listened attentively to the tour guide and did not mess about one little bit ...



Look at these lovely big barrels for brewing lovely apple related things! Jack, now known as Scrumpy Jack, was game enough to climb inside a barrel, as the cleaners do when they pressure-wash these 100 year old french oak casks ... I do hope they wear clean socks ...


After our tour, we got to taste many of the products, and enjoy some shopping time. After that DFS got the nearest they ever have to a flash mob, when, suitably lubed by the wonderful drink, we sang 'I'm a Believer' in the new distillery, for our sweet tour guide!


This is the inside of Notre Dame in the town of Bayeux, pretty impressive. We headed to Bayeux after our cider tour. My room mates and I crept into the crypt, and the picture got lots of silly comments on Facebook of course!


Bayeux was beautiful, but not all of us could get in to see the Tapestry because they helpfully kept closing the doors (when they got too full i think!). And that's just an excuse to stop for a Crepe!


Coffees and treats were very welcome for tired singers, which is when Jigsaw-Jenny realised we had lost Fulvia, so i called Fulvia's phone, and she confessed she was lost! I directed her from the cathedral to our cafe and all was well in the world again!


Our evening concert came round soon enough, at a lovely campsite, with a captive audience in the bar there.We sang our socks off, well i did take my shoes off, and enjoyed free drinks afterwords. There should be a few recordings floating around, taken from the balcony, where the acoustics were especially lovely! 

Then back to Gateaux du Baffy for our dinner, and we had to sit at completely different tables so as to not become stale and set in our ways! 


Did you spot the Melons on the wall? 

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  1. Thanks for doing the blog, which is a joy to read

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