Summer holiday 2004
Le Cap D´Agde − France






Sunday, 4th July
Day 3


When I wake up this morning I still feel a bit shaky from the previous day (and night), but already I feel a whole lot better then yesterday. Still, I haven´t quite recovered yet. First things first, and for some fresh bread and other groceries we go to the resort´s store near the entrance. Here we buy some freshly baked croissants. After a good breakfast the boys run off to the pool and the rest of us go for a walk at the harbour area where there are lots of stores. We stroll around and buy some fruit and enjoy the wonderful sunny weather. It is almost thirty degrees Celsius with a mild wind. This is the mistral I am told. The weather in the Netherlands is of quite a different nature we learned yesterday. It is raining and storming over there.

Whilst enjoying the warm refreshing wind, we walk through the narrow streets with lots of small shops on both sides. These sell all sorts of things but mostly food. There are restaurants, snack-bars, clothes shops, souvenir shops and supermarkets. We buy some olive oil, apricots and some French cheese. Then we stroll back to the apartment. None of us is really in the mood for doing anything. We are all still pretty tired from the day before, so we spend this day mostly with hanging around and reading a bit or take a dive in the swimming pool.

Our apartment is on the edge of an enclosure with in the centre a large lawn where the younger children frequently play. It is now around eight in the evening and to our surprise the people across the lawn have put a small television set on the garden table and have grouped some chairs around it. It begins to look like a mini amphitheatre with the television as the centrepiece. Tonight as a part of the European Soccer competition they play the game Portugal vs. Greece.

That is what this is all about, soccer! In the bar also, people have gathered around the television set. No chair is left unused mate! The game starts around nine and as time progresses and the night sets in; the television set becomes a prominent brightly coloured centre of entertainment which raises many a cheer. Being the incredible soccer enthusiast that I am, I am finishing my story log for yesterday and today occasionally being interrupted by the comments and screaming of the soccer experts gathered across the lawn.

When the game has finely finished and my sons have returned from the bar where they watched the soccer game, we gather for a midnight snack. At some stage my oldest son detects a shooting star, believe it or not! I myself have never seen one before, but there it goes! Gradually it becomes more and more visible until it is shining brightly in the night sky shooting from west to east. After a short while another one flares up, travelling from east to west, and then a third one is going south to north. All of them are clearly visible while shooting through the night sky. We sit around for a while longer scrutinizing the night sky for the next one to come, but no more











and welcome!




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The swimmingpool at dusk.

The swimmingpool at dusk.



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Soccer experts in open air.

Soccer experts in open air.



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Soccer audience in the bar.

Soccer audience in the bar.