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  Tours, France
Friday, April 18, 2008

Everybody in the house sleeps in which is good.  I awaken at 11am, Helios and Coralie at 11.30am.  Coralie pops out and gets some french pastries for breakfast; so it is running on pure sugar energy until lunchtime.  I have discussed going to Printemps de Bourges Festival with them and we decide to go and look at what times the trains are leaving.  We head into the Tourist Information pick up some brochures for some of the Chateau's and go and book my ticket.  I can get a 5pm train to Bourges which will get me to the concert in time; but the train coing back is a nightmare, there is only one and it leaves at 1.40am, so I will have 3 and a half hours to kill in Bourges before my train leaves.  It is do-able, I can always see some other bands that are performing in the street or go to abar and drink.  Although this will not place me in good steed for a big day on Saturday.

Helios has offered to drive me around to some of the Chateau's on Saturday whilst Coralie is at her exhibition, that is amazingly genrous of him and we plan where we want to go

Coralie with her Exhibition Poster

.  When we get back to the appartment we go to book my concert tickets to the Bourges Festival only to find EVERYTHING is booked out, the day before there were plenty of tickets left.  That coupled with the fact that the trainwould be a nightmare has me convinced that something is conspiring against me going.

We relax until Coralie comes back home and she is surprised to see me, as I am suprised to still be in Tours.  We explain that I will not be going to Bourges so we decide to do some shopping since Helios mother is going to drop around for dinner.

I decide I need to get a scarf as my neck is freezing 80% of the time and I still have the tail end of my cold.  As its in Springtime the shops only have silly warm weather clothes, after 6 shops we finally find a cotton scalf, we also bump into Helios mother of all people.

Its a warm family gathering, Helios mother, husband and step daughter and we eat pizza, Helios mother bought over some caramel slices that would truely put Warrandyte to shame, they are light and delicious, we drink some wine with blackcurrent syrup and favourite in France and chat in both English and French, me in both, somewhat.

After they leave Coralie asks if I want to go out for a concert or stay in and watch a movie, I say a movie since we will be getting up at 7am in the morning and it will be a big day.  They think this will be a good idea, we settle down to watch "O Brother", I fall asleep halfway through.

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