Le Printemps!!

So we've finally been having nice weather here in Moulins! And all over for that matter! Everywhere I've been in the past two weeks has been beautiful! Like I said Amsterdam was amazing because the weather was perfect the entire time! It was the perfect temperature where you would wear either pants or shorts and be perfectly comfortable in either one. So has Moulins and Clermont up until this week where we've had a veritable heat wave because today it was 31C (88F) which is obscene for April in this region of France. The high today on the south coast of France in Montpellier was only 22C! After Amsterdam for the second week of vacations me and my mates went to Vichy for a couple of days then down to Ambert where Chris and Lalo live which was great. Its a town of about 1500 people situated in a valley. It's a great historical town which really feels like "France" in that it seems it hasn't changed much over the past couple hundred years. Plus the people there were AMAZING everyone was incredibly nice and Chris and Lalo knew pretty much everyone in the whole city. Coming back to work after the vacances was pretty difficult but I'm getting situated in for the long haul 'til the end. This will be the longest time I've worked since I've been here! I worked 4 weeks at first, then 2 weeks off for Toussaint, 7 or 8 weeks before 2 week Christmas break, 6 weeks to Winter break then 2 weeks for Spring break and now 11 weeks until the end of it all. I'm planning on going down to Montpellier for at least a week to visit the UGA en France group. It's gonna be a bit annoying cause I'm going to miss July 4th in the USA and I'm pretty sure I will miss the French equivalent of July 14th in France as well. Blah.

So anyway this past weekend was Le Printemps de Bourges which means Springtime of Bourges. Bourges is a city of about 100,000 people one hour northeast of Moulins by train. Its another great town that feels very "French" in the architecture and just the general ambiance of the town...Not to mention there were people EVERYWHERE for the festival which basically consists of tons of free music, concerts, and street performers and basically every single hippie in France relocated to one city! What more could you ask for?? well perfect weather would be nice. Oh what? What's that? We get perfect weather too? Great! Basically what it boils down to is one of the best weekends I've spent with my mates in France (Lalo you were deeply missed) which is a good thing since this upcoming weekend in Clermont-Ferrand will be our last weekend together before they all abandon me and head back to England/Mexico/Scotland/Argentina. Anyway I'm posting some pictures of the Printemps de Bourges and I've also added a few new pics to the Amsterdam Round III and France in general also. I'm gonna add another album too as well with just some general springtime pics around Clermont and Moulins.

Le Printemps de Bourges Album 1.

Le Printemps de Bourges Album 2 - Springtime in Moulins/Clermont

I forgot to mention that the Sunday after the night of concerts we hung out with Dan's Sister, Naomi and her friends from Poiters, France and we went and had an amazing picnic by a lake just a bit outside of Bourges where we grilled out and sat around chatting and playing games and stuff. Anyway take it easy folks! You'll hear from me soon!