Te pardi !
Aug. 27th, 2006 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieHello flist, I'm back from Duras. Back to Choisy, back to the city, back to the concrete and the buildings, and it fills me with glee. I'm just the kind of city girl that does love being in the country, but only if she knows, for a fact, that she'll come back to civilisation the grey and pollution that makes her home soon-ish. Or else, she just wants to cry. Being in the country is fine and dandy, it's all green as if the whole world was made of pastures and trees and valleys and there are cows and sheeps and horses and the sky has stars all over and you can even see the milky way and it's so very gorgeous but it's also freaky because dude! The nights? Are too dark! They're dark, without-any-light dark *wide eyes*
Since everything is numbers, during that second week we met with eighteen cousins, went to two markets, drove to one city and cruised a dozen villages. We also admired a dozen churches and one castle - Henry IV's in Nerac - andeighty-two 163 pictures were taken, some of which I'll share as soon as I have time to play with my bugbitten account.
Oh and I love the way they talk too; not just the accent which is so charming but the vocabulary; it's 'te' and 'pardi' and 'drole' all the time. They say 'drole' for 'enfants/kids' a lot. Some of them say 'force fois' for 'souvent/often' etc... I just love that :-)
Also, six books were read. No wait, the six books were read over the course of the two weeks as I could only read two books the second week since we were always somewhere else: Alien Taste and Tainted Trail which are definitely not great literature but a lot of fun anyway, Le Temps n'est Rien [aka The Time Traveller's Wife] which sucked me in like you wouldn't believe, it's a beautiful, haunting story which I highly recommend. Then, A Study in Scarlet, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sockich's recent reading of Sherlock Holmes made me want to go and re-read Conan Doyle's work, Good Omens, which is pure gold and made me love Neil Gaiman even more - not an easy feat at all - and made me want to buy more Terry Pratchett asap and, finally, the first volume of the Fortune de France series which is made of awesome too and tickled me pink because lots of the villages they spoke about in the novel were places I'd visited myself and, considering the time and place, they also say 'drole' for 'kids' :-) Also, I love that part of our History.
Anyway, I had a wonderful time during my holidays, though I'm always glad to be back home because, you know, it's home :-)
Okay now, off to watch my first download - Kyle XY whee! - and then Clark will have to be a good boy and download everything else I missed. You go, Clark!
Since everything is numbers, during that second week we met with eighteen cousins, went to two markets, drove to one city and cruised a dozen villages. We also admired a dozen churches and one castle - Henry IV's in Nerac - and
Oh and I love the way they talk too; not just the accent which is so charming but the vocabulary; it's 'te' and 'pardi' and 'drole' all the time. They say 'drole' for 'enfants/kids' a lot. Some of them say 'force fois' for 'souvent/often' etc... I just love that :-)
Also, six books were read. No wait, the six books were read over the course of the two weeks as I could only read two books the second week since we were always somewhere else: Alien Taste and Tainted Trail which are definitely not great literature but a lot of fun anyway, Le Temps n'est Rien [aka The Time Traveller's Wife] which sucked me in like you wouldn't believe, it's a beautiful, haunting story which I highly recommend. Then, A Study in Scarlet, because
sockich's recent reading of Sherlock Holmes made me want to go and re-read Conan Doyle's work, Good Omens, which is pure gold and made me love Neil Gaiman even more - not an easy feat at all - and made me want to buy more Terry Pratchett asap and, finally, the first volume of the Fortune de France series which is made of awesome too and tickled me pink because lots of the villages they spoke about in the novel were places I'd visited myself and, considering the time and place, they also say 'drole' for 'kids' :-) Also, I love that part of our History.Anyway, I had a wonderful time during my holidays, though I'm always glad to be back home because, you know, it's home :-)
Okay now, off to watch my first download - Kyle XY whee! - and then Clark will have to be a good boy and download everything else I missed. You go, Clark!
