My dad is a huge opera fan; he’s especially crazy about Italian opera. My mum loves classical music too; she used to play the piano very well. My brother and I took up playing violin and piano quite early on but I would be a liar if I said I tried very hard. Not unlike…Read more »
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Jazz sur son 31
The weather is turning a bit colder now and I am cursing myself for having complained, recently, that it was too hot. Having missed Piano aux Jacobins a few weeks ago, and regrettably Remi Panossian, due to the seemingly endless summer and a force stronger than myself which propelled me back and forth to the…Read more »
The Camargue
click to play Soy Gypsy La Camargue is the wildest place I have been in France which is probably the reason why I love it so much. Some of the Camargue is in the Gard department, in Occitanie, and some of it is in Bouche-du-Rhône in PACA, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, our friendly neighbours to the…Read more »
Nîmes
Nîmes The first time I ever saw the Nîmes arena was on my T.V. watching a Metallica concert. I vowed to visit the city that just happens to have a ‘venue’ like that where they can stage concerts. I wouldn’t have known anything about Metallica if it were not for a Christmas present a few…Read more »
Festival de la Cité
Carcassonne, Festival de la Cité Ode to l’Aude Aude is one of the regional departments formerly of the Languedoc Roussillon now part of Occitanie that borders Haute Garonne, the department where Toulouse is located. As you drive along the A61 from Toulouse, the ‘autoroute des deux mers’, towards the Mediterranean you have the Canal…Read more »