Latest Update - Las Laous

We have spent the last few months isolated up in the mountains 

looking after cows and pigs with the lovely Justin, Emily and Daniele of Las Laous.

Not a bad place for sitting out a global pandemic. We have been very lucky!

Sometimes, if we’re not in the clouds we get some beautiful views.

Very difficult cycling though! It is steep!

We have a little house to ourselves and are protected by the skull and scythes.

 

The cute little Galloway calves and the rest of the herd have gone into the communal grazing land, 

to spend the summer high up in the mountain.

The piggies are still with us, always hungry and mostly quite funny.

 

Sometimes we get to go to St.Girons market now that it’s open again, selling delicious slow cooked pork.

Happy pigs make for happy eating!

 

We haven’t been performing any shows , everything got cancelled.

We didn’t make it to the Ciemmona in Turin this year on account of cette funeste pandemie !

So we’re still not in Italy!

And le Festival du Roc Castel has been cancelled for this year. Boo Hoo ! it was their 10th anniversary !

We were really looking forward to going again this year, performing, playing, participating, having fun!

“Toutefois le programme de cette année est donc reporté en 2021.  Et il sera
augmenté de quelques éléments supplémentaires pour compenser le manque
occasionné ou simplement pour faire une belle fête et célébrer « le monde
d’après », pour employer un mot à la mode. En espérant que cette idée de
« monde d’après » ne se soit pas un feu de paille. Paraît-il que le
développement de la pratique de la bicyclette en sera amplifié et
constituera l’un des éléments de cet après. Souhaitons-le “

pour le CA de LVE et l'équipe du festival, Hubert Martin

https://festival-roc-castel.eu/.

However we are using our time well and are making great progress on our new show,

Jonny Jeegante and the Bici Benshi which could be ready to roll out by the end of the summer. 

 

We’ll be staying here at Las Laous until the end of August and then take to the road again towards the south east of France.

Life is slowly coming back to normal and at last we now have some dates to play our show at the local summer Marche Nocturne in Massat on the 23rd of July and the 13th of August!

We’ll continue to enjoy the views and will go up and over for a walk one day to swim in the Etang Bleu on the other side of the mountain!

 

Brexit

 La Vaquelot wackels a lot! Into port as we exit port and head for Brexit the morning after.
 But who cares!? As long as we have bicycles to ride and flowers to pick all is fine.

  that way , no that way..! 

The Brexit monster is looming large as we work our way through the horrendous, toxic slurry of traffic on the little island, slowly sinking.... 


Campsites without the licence to camp in tents.... Campsites where you have to bring your own toilet...  Campsites not insured for tents....Campsites are no longer campsites! 


 The christmas pie trail... with a name like that, what else would one expect really!
Aaah, the wonderful world of Sustrans! This way? That way? Round the houses, through the industrial estate.... Where are we now?
Phew there is a light on the horizon that shines like a hub with golden spokes.... D.I.Y. bicycle workshops!
    

 It's more like chasing Pokemons, virtual reality made real! Cyclist GO!

 what-would-british-roads-look-like-if-we-treated-them-the-same-way-we-do-our-cycle-lanes

To calm us down, a little art in the trees and on the roads...
       
We finally got away from London round about Hungerford.... cider and the west country at last.
Ten minutes in the tunnel and we're there!
     
 Darf Wader on holidays in the south west, enjoying the tunnels  and of course the cider...
   

 We had a great run of shows in the West Country.... Long live the Bristol Bike Project!

   

Aaaah the green and the trees of Devon and Cornwall!




It's time! Southward ho! The birds have left already... 


 Now it is us that fly across the rolling hills, the creeks and meadows
 one last look at the gert lush
 as we flee Brexit

We’re cycling and pedalling in the rain, doo dloo doo doo doo

Doo dloo doo doo doo,
rolling down the hills
from the Vosges with a smile on my face...



...there is bamboo bikes

[ In'Bô ] [ In'Bô ] [ In'Bô ]away 

http://inbo.fr/en/

There is no mustard in Dijon, it all comes from Canada.... AOC hahaha
But there is a mustard coloured bicycle on a pole outside La Rustine  http://larustine.org/

Look at that  stage set! Ready for our show!

   
The little house in the vineyards of Bourgogne, we're laughing at clouds....

... rain in our shoes
bicycles in our hearts



we're singing and dancing in the rain... This by the way is a traditional vine-burning-wheelbarrow....
Morvan in the sun, sha la la la laaaa


across to Bourges in the sun, sha la la la la la
Mon Cher Velo http://monchervelo.fr/ assemble generale, sha la la la la
pique-nique partage et espectaculo fabuleux, eux eux eux eux eux

Long, straight fast roads, sha la la la la
Road kill along the way... It's always the little birds that lie there like as if they were sleeping, not nice....
                                                      

Why am I smiling?
And why do I sing?
It's raining again and it's the middle of June, we're still wearing gloves and now we're actually having to cycle in the water....

ALERT ROUGE ALERT ROUGE ALERT ROUGE ALERT ROUGE ALERT ROUGE ALERT ROUGE
Fish on the roads, we're cycling and pedalling in the rain.

What Giants !? A Kamishibai storytelling adventure

A storyteller arrives for our first Kamishibai Workshop at Nanoplex, the Cube

  the Kamishibai Bicycle

busy working on our story

 'Laundry Day on The Giant Red Planet'

On the road with the Stegosaurus at Bristols Biggest Bike Ride the next day.

 Storytelling at Refugee Week Festival, Queens Square

the same afternoon