Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition
In which we find ourselves in another part of the world
Boules à la guinguette
In France, a guinguette is a restaurant/amusement area that lives on the side of the river or lake. It’s a new concept for me, but one that is apparently fairly common.
Today, we cycled past Luluparc, a big one in the village of Rochecorbon. They had volleyball, mini golf, go-carts that you have to pedal, a band, big drinking tent, blowup toys (like a bouncy house… Not what you were thinking) and monkey bars and stuff like that, and of course, boules.
Priorities
I wandered around a cemetery yesterday morning. In addition to being above ground, the cemeteries here are different than ours in that each person receives some number of plaques. Family members, friends, even clubs that you belonged to, make you a little granite remembrance to place on the grave, like photos on the piano.
The gentleman pictured here (or his widow who enjoyed 15 good — better? — years after he passed), chose to put his pétanque club in pride of place, in front of nieces, nephews, and even his children.
Frankly, I get that. Good on you, mate.
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 