Summer holiday 2002
Charente − France


Tuesday, 14th August

Today we stay at the cottage all day long. The weather is really nice and the sun starts to show it self from behind the clouds more and more. We do some reading and some drinking (me!!!) and some eating (me also) and some hanging around (me as well).

In the afternoon when the sun really shows itself, the kids go for a swim in the lake. The water is still a bit to nippy to my liking, but they don't mind at all. When I go looking for them in order to make a picture, they have changed the lake for the pool, which is next to the soccer field. Actually there are two pools, one for the adults and one for the toddlers.

Sitting in my chair again, enjoying the sun, I catch myself listening to, as far as what I am concerned, the major attraction of the park. I am referring to the deafening quiet. Whit this remark I refer to the total absence of any mechanical noise, including radios. A luxury commodity that is not always available everywhere. You can listen to the birds and the exquisite absence of virtually any other noise.

Oooh shit..., I must be getting old.