The neighbour’s dog is barking… it’s so annoying.

Anyways! Back from a month in France. It was interesting. For a quick recap, these things happened/came to my notice:

We drove from Roscoff to Toulouse during the first day.
I had 3 McDonalds in the one month I was there. This is surprising because McDonalds at home is a once every six months – if that – kind of thing.
I went to Paris… in Paris I saw the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, went to go see the Mona Lisa again too, the Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, the Pompidou. The Pompidou is crap, there’s only one thing in there of any consequence and that’s the Guerrilla Girls thing, but once you’ve read it and agreed with it, it’s a nod-and-walk-on thingy.
Went to Leonardo da Vinci’s house.
Went to a MoMA in Ceret which is where Picasso was for a while.
Went to the beach. Went swimming in the sea and in the swimming pool.
Went canoeing, nearly died doing it. Was saved by a very nice German.
French tv is crap, but after a month I was starting to follow it, watching their Secret Story (their version of Big Brother, I think) and Un Diner Presque Parfait, which is our Come Dine With Me. And their version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Desperate Housewives with dubbed French.
We rented bikes for a day and went cycling for aaaaaages in the countryside. It was lovely though, for some reason the countryside there has a ton of butterflies and if you go cycle along the hedge rows really fast, they fly out all startled and it is quite beautiful to see. Also that day, I learned how to ride a bike with no hands Then later my dad and I came across someone selling fruit, so we bought apples and cherries and ate them. Then we found a lake with some swans on it.
Went to see Chartres cathedral.
Saw this little place where monks lived, its a fortress thingy thats on built on a hill which is a peninsula out in the ocean and there’s only one road out to it.
Saw a German war base thingy on the coast too.

I’ll put pictures up of it soon.

Last night saw Lady Gaga. This was an interesting concert. Chris Brown was very… hip hop. More bass and DJ and dancing than lights and smoke. Lady Gaga was lights and smoke. I mean last night would have been bad for anyone suffering from epilepsy, I’m surprised there wasn’t a warning. There were lights that just lit the whole place up, big white flood lights that flashed down over the audience so hard that the stage went into shadow. Lady Gaga herself was good… she can sing, dance. Although she’s definitely crazy. And said the fuck/fucking a couple of times on stage, I’ve never heard swearing at a concert before. It started with her shouting “Are you ready to fucking party?” and… I thought, “Jebus… I’ve seen a lot of young girls coming in here with their mothers/parents.” And there were other F words about… but the most memorable thing was her talking about the female clitoris. And she actually said the word. And likened her audience’s applause to orgasms and then asked us to clap more… which I didn’t. But the songs were good, she can sing and it was a good performance.