Babau!!! |
There´s a formula for the morning newspapers in August in southern France: petanques scores (old men clicking wooden balls together in the dust), the next bullfight (yes, in France), the grape harvest...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:34:00 GMT |
How to Exorcise Collioure |
Collioure looks promising: a medieval fishing town on the Vermilion Coast, strange light that led Matisse to decide he was Matisse, and of course, an antfarm of tourists slurping the inevitable gelato...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:10:00 GMT |
France: The Bouffon of Banyuls |
Scamtastic Max loads us on a train and gets us all across the border by telling a story about being completely broke and going to Marseille to get money. The controller throws us off anyway, but we're...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:30:00 GMT |
Port Bou: Gitcher Thumb Out |
Today is hitchhiking practicum for Billy, who's never tried it before. We broil in the sun with our thumbs out, while I agree with him that the ease of getting around Europe this way must be the produ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:01:00 GMT |
Mysteries of Cadaquès |
To get to the secret paradise of Cadaquès, on Spain's Costa Brava, you get the bus from Figueres, where you can stop, paint a moustache on your lip, and do shows for armies of gelato-splattered touris...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:38:00 GMT |
Barcelona |
We wander into Barcelona - my home base for busking last year - early early, while the beer cans and pee are being swept from the plazas and a bowtied man named Pinotxo brews the first cafe con leches...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:20:00 GMT |
Marseille |
With the notion of attending a buskers' festival in northeast France, we forget to pay for train tickets again; and are whisked through the tunnel hiding Monaco from unwashed eyes, into the French Riv...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:47:00 GMT |
Monterosso: Il spettacolo cominzia! |
One week into the trip, and Billy and I are already fighting. Like so: "I´m gonna slice off your goiter and keep it in aspic jelly." "Oh yeah? I´m gonna slice it even more thinly and give you a facial...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:55:00 GMT |
Certaldo: Stoopid Moosic!!! |
Billy and I received our dancing orders and a banner to carry as part of the Hungry March Band color guard for 2 nights at the Mercantia festival.Stomping and whirling up and down steep cobbled mediev...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:42:00 GMT |
Martin Lawrence: bodhisattva? |
We were trying to get to a gig being dancing fools for the Hungry March Band at the Mercantia Festival in Certaldo, Tuscany. In the interest of time, we bought bus tickets and forgot about hitchhiking...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:35:00 GMT |
