The man in the photo calls himself "Jean Le Blanc" (ie, John with White Hair!). He runs an award winning winery in Bordeaux (the last we visited) and is A SELF CONFESSED EUROVISION FAN - he asked us about it unprompted!Jean was appalled with Finland, loved Anna Vissi and felt that France will never win with their slow songs!
Paul and John watched Eurovision live on their huge 12 inch hotel TV in Amboise. No Terry Wogan - instead two French commentators with verbal diarrohea, talking non-stop over one another and the Greek hosts - will you shut up!!!
Paul and John voted for Greece three times which resulted in France giving Greece cinq pointes!
Why did Greece give Finland douze pointes??? No one is taking Eurovision seriously anymore! Greece put on a great show but most entrants deserved to be fried in olive oil and fed to the cat!
This is our last day in France before we return again from Spain and our summary is as follows: if you make an effort to talk French and show politeness they are very warm and friendly! High points: baguettes and croissant, very organised around the tourist, excellent roads, countryside is lush and green, sunset at 10pm, many organic full colour vegies (but strangely not many restaurant meals serve them!). Low points: they laugh at our shorts, road signs point in strange directions and smoking everywhere (even on their bicycles!).
Thank you for your blog comments so far - keep them coming and remember to sign your name - no guts, no glory!!!
See you in Spain!!!
Well at least you both have one consolation, that the EuroVision was trash, but you are to live a EuroVision of your own. Pity you didn't have Terry Wogan as he was shocked with most of the entries & even said that Spain & France had given up trying - such bad entries!
ReplyDeleteThe pics look amazing - especially the French castles.
Are you sure the French are laughing at your shorts or your "sexy" exposed legs?
ReplyDeleteThe photos of France have been great - one thing I noticed is how clean the place is.