We flew from Manchester airport in the small hours of Thursday morning.A very brief flight,and then we were met by "Chris" our driver come tour guide come everything really.We weren't due to play until the following night so that gave us a day to settle in and have a rest ready for the two shows we had planned.After an early night and a good sleep we went to set up at the first venue,kind of like a small community centre in the middle of nowhere and the equipment was very limited,although we did manage to get a very good sound out of what we had.The first evening's show was geared at the local "english" people now living in France and we had a great time,a real mixed bag of young and old but they all received us very well and didnt want us to finish at the end of the night.The second night's show was a wedding at a local golf club,we didnt get on stage till around 11.15 as the wedding troupe were running late.As we started there were very few people in the venue(all at the bar across the courtyard no doubt! Ha!)but it slowly began to fill up and the atmosphere was building,as more and more people realised there was band playing the space on the big dance floor was becoming less and less! Soon enough it was really busy,everyone dancing and singing to their own favourite Beatle songs,they would have had us up all night if we had let them.After a quick hop over the water we were back in the U.K,great trip we thoroughly enjoyed it.
We'd like to say a huge thank you to Beth(the wedding planner)for inviting us out to France again,as this is our second visit the first some three years ago now,so nice to see her and catch up with goss! Thanks a million to Chris,who drove us to and from the venues,supermarkets and airports and not to mention loading of equipment and everything else.Thanks to Jean for the wonderful food "Lady that was a mean spag boll"! you could be my Mum any day! Thanks to you all we had a fab time,let's do it again........soon!.
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