Sorry for the delayed blog post – the internet was down when we got in last night. Either that or Hermine had switched it off as she could “sense a thunderstorm brewing.” We did have a few interesting conversations with Hermine yesterday. She basically wanted to kick Debbie out of her bedroom and move her into a cupboard. The cheek! We have managed to resolve this issue by Debbie agreeing to share rooms with a new woofer arriving from Chile today. Should be interesting! Hermine is planning a barbeque on Friday and apparently the lovely Didier is going to bring along “Bambi” to throw on the fire. Julie, being a sworn vegetarian, is suitably horrified. Hermine also chatted about a cousin of hers who is “both boring and fragile, not a good combination.” This has left us wondering what she says about us to other people!
We got really lost, umpteen times, in Paris yesterday, with a skitzoid sat nav and a sub-standard navigator. We managed to film 30 minutes of Debbie’s lap whilst circling the Arc de Triomphe. But we shot lots more tunnels, having thrown the rice filled cushion out the window since we decided we actually LIKED the shaky footage.
Then we tried to find the cloud towers again. We ended up doing 3 point turns by gangs of youths and police, with a go pro strapped to the roof of the car. A bit dodgy. We eventually found the towers and ventured up to the multi-storey car park that we found before, not in the most salubrious part of town we have to mention. Instead of a deserted roof we found distinct signs of life. There were sofas arranged in groups around a glass coffee table, looking worryingly like everyone had just left. And Julie almost did a wee by what appeared to be someone’s makeshift front door. Oops. We shot the towers as quickly as we could and ran like the chicken shits we are as soon as we heard someone coming. Better safe than sorry. The footage kind of looks alright, which is a relief as we ain’t going back there in a hurry.
Thats it, filming over for now. Its back to the chateau for a few days and onto the important task of capturing suitable audio to match the footage. On that note, brilliant news from Jean-Baptiste, who makes honey in the neighbouring village, in that we can record the sound of his bee hives. He is washing our bee-keeping suits as we speak. Beyond excited!!!
