
I was planning on posting some pictures of the food today, but I was in such a rush to eat it that I forgot.
It turns
out that we will be giving a little concert for each other tomorrow. I play in two groups, one which is playing a rather straightforward Marais piece (flute, violin, gamba, harpsichord), and one which is playing a lovely piece by Locatelli (two flutes, two harpsichords) that must have been written to torture the counting impaired. If anybody doesn't come i
n right, it is, as our coach Jacques Ogg described it, like trying to repair a broken sewer line in the dark. If he had hair, I think he'd be pulling it out about now. We have never made it through this piece without a train wreck. And I am not always the guilty party. The other harpsichordist is also having a tough time. If we play the third and fourth movements, we have a 50-50 chance of not falling on our faces. The above picture was taken in happier times, before the flutists realized what they were stuck with.
I finally walked down to the beach this evening. It's a beautiful rocky area, I wouldn't really call it a beach in the "go swimming" sense of the word,
because of all the rocks, but it's still a very nice place to go. There are about 300 steps down to the beach plus a hill at the bottom that's about a block or so more. It was almost 8:30 when we went down there, so my pictures are rather dark, but it's a nice place. There's some kind of a bunker/lookout/something
or other that looks
like it's been there a long time. It's been papered over with posters of naked people (many repetitions of a few posters) possibly because this is a clothing optional beach. Yeah, like anybody's going to take their overcoat off here. Did I also mention that there are 300 steps and a hill coming back up?
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