26.05 Day 9 . . . Egg-Stravaganza

Another quiet night - Loup is sleeping really well due to his active social life in the arena, I think he will miss this when we return home.
Breakfast this morning was our turn, last year we had brought lots of French goodies with us, but due to the days before the festival in the UK we had no hope of keeping anything fresh let alone edible. So - Tre had ramped up the forthcoming breakfast for three days tell the Annals clan of an extravaganza, when Infact all she had actually meant was an Egg-stravaganza. Three courses - first up - soup, well a lemon liqueur called Soupe in French fizz. Next up and purely due to Simon moaning about a little error Tre made when he came to stay, we had omelette with spicy chorizo served in baps! Of course Simon had more than anyone else. The pudding was brought to our attention by our Dutch neighbours at home, neat Advocaat (that yellow delight of Christmas snowball drinks) with fresh spray cream on the top.
A slightly boozy finish to the breakfast.
There was also a t-shirt swap from Jax and Simon to me and me and Tre to Simon. T-shirts to be worn in the arena today. After the other night I felt ours to Simon was more accurate and also won the most offensive prize.
We didn’t rush in for the first bands today in an effort to wear Loup out pre arena arrival.
We arrived and met Simon and Jax just as the Signatures hit the stage.
Weirdly today bands included Republica and The Blockheads. The last time I saw Republica was as a warm up act for Paul Weller at Crystal Palace Park and Ian Dury was also one of the warm up acts (sadly no longer with us) - a slightly weird coincidence. Both were on good form and well supported.
Highlight of the day was The Stranglers who headlined. I’m no Stranglers fan, far from it, but there performance went a long way to changing that. Really tight and totally professional - great set list too.
Way too soon it was all over and we were standing outside the arena area on our way back to our sleeping quarters - with goodbyes to Jonathan and Emma and see you next year commitments. Simon and Jax we will see next Sunday in Italy all things being equal.

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