reached
champagne and found the place of where the friend of my friend Benoit
stay. Got there around 1pm and talked with them all day long.my first
impression on them was really good.
Day
after they went of for a bike tour with the kids, so little day for
me of laundry and computing.
Went
they came back they offered me to go eat in a little restaurant ( a
cabin ) up in the mountain.
We
ate a cheese fondue and drank some wine and tried some deep fired
cheese roll. Was a brilliant diner in excellent company. I did digest
that cheese all night long...
on
saturday, we went in the wood to help Sophie father (francois) to
burn all the left over from the lumberjack. Hard job, mostly after
the lunch, few glass of wine with lot of food, I just can't work as
hard after that ! But we did a few more hours so the wine did lost
effect after awhile.
The
following week, I did pass it on the computer to set up my project,
wrote all the different letter for society, foundation, magazine,
paper, radio... I finally found the foundation that I wanted to put
some energies for and went to see them with my bike in Lausanne on
friday. Went I came back to Yverdon, I went to eat a pizza in an
italian restaurant and drank some beer in an empty bar. At 10 pm I
just went back to champagne since everything was still empty...
another
saturday, we went this time to Vincent place to help him with more
wood but was fire wood this time. Vincent is the president of les
cartons du Coeur of Yverdon, ( box of heart if I can translate it)
the concept is simple, get the old food from market and distribute it
to peoples in needs.
So
this is went I meet Him, another really nice guy, 3 guy was cutting
the wood outside, 2 was carrying it inside and 2 more people was
putting it correctly in the barn. Was another hard job but was a fun
day. After work, we had a really nice diner that Carol made and yup
more wine !!
Another
brilliant day over.
On
wenesday, Vincent asked me to go help him and is son Julien to
install some letter on a building.
I
had a excellent lunch and a few beer for it. Julien invited me for
the saturday to go in Lausanne and eat with some of is mate and go
out after. So I accepted the invitation.
On
Friday, Daniel and I went to the carton du coeur to help them with
the making of pizza and serve people that gave a donation to the
foundation. It was a way to thank them. After we cleaned the place
and went of.
Saturday,
julien came to take me at 7pm and we went to Lausanne to Jean-marc
place. I knew the guy from the wood fest at Vincent place, Florime
arrive a bit later and we ate a wonderful diner that Nadia made for
us but she didn't enjoy it with us, she wasn't there. After 3 bottle
of wine and a few beer, at 1am, we went out and drank a horrible
drink at the punk and moved to the 13 were we drank more and danced
till 4h30 am. We got back, I got sick and went I got out of the
bathroom, Florime was sleeping on the floor of the kitchen, jean-marc
on the floor of the living room and julien on the couch at least. I
found myself a empty couch and fall asleep. I leaned in the morning
why Florime was on the floor of the kitchen, they started water to
cook noodle but they all fallen asleep. Went Nadia came back at 7am,
she took a few photo of us and discovered the burned pot....
how
shameful we were on those photo... a well it was a good night and
didn't happen since a long time that I drank so much. At 8pm I was
death and went in bed.
This
week I done more job for the project and done lot of cherry picking
and removing the seed of them. Now I understand why they are so
expensive. Took us a few day to do 1 tree. Ok we didnt do only that
in the day but still a few hours each day. But hey, what a reward to
eat those nice fresh cherry after hummmmm sooo goood.
On
Friday, I went to get some egg for a cherry cake and when I came
back, I broke a piece of the bike....tried to found a replace part
but no success.
Saturday
again, Julien birthday surprise. What a day, Florime installed some
game in the wood, one was a 25 meter high ladder installed on a tree,
we all add to climb in to get some point that we never checked after.
Another game was ( I don't recalled the name of it but it a 80 meter
long cable going down a hill and you sit in a safety gear fixed to
that cable and you go down with it. Good fun.
After,
diner time. What a feast, home made salmon tartar and liver pate on
toast, and some little sandwich. After that main meal, a really good
wood roasted Ham and lot of different salads, dessert, profiteroles
with honey on top, yummy. I meet lot of nice people here and had lot
of fun.
Went
in bed with the sunrise. 6H30 am and got up at 10 am. Carol and
Vincent were in the kitchen making us coffee and egg, how nice !!
stayed all day there, we cleaned the place a bit and stayed till 7 pm
talking outside.
Monday,
shop closed... Tuesday, I repaired my bike all day long and talked
with Daniel till nearly 1am. They offered me a Swiss knife, a blue
hat, sun glass, a whistle a nice little box, some chicken stuck and
10 nose clown. ( Daniel doing once in a while some clown job and
selling clown nose for clown with no frontier) Add to say goodbye to
dan that night since he was leaving really early for work in the
morning. At 7h30 Masimo came to hug me and tell me good bye and
Charlotte to. They were going to school. 2 really nice kids, im sure
they gonna save the honour of the new generation of kids.
I
started to pack my stuff and at 10h30 I was ready to say my last
goodbye. I went to Sophie work place ( 2 minute walk from there
house) and that went I realized I was really going back on the road.
3 week pass with those amazing people, was hard to say that goodbye.
Really felt like saying goodbye to some really old friend I knew from
childhood, my eye were burning. I had to start pedalling.
Got
some food and left Yverdon. Im sure this day was the hottest since I
left of this journey. Every water source I saw, I was splashing
myself with water. I took lot of little break in the shade of tree on
the side of the road. Found a spot near a lake, but sadly I was in
the wood, didn't found any place on the side, was to steep to set the
tent... made my first meal since 3 week of really good fresh meal at
my friends place, made pasta with cheese and a chicken stuck. Was ok
but what a difference.
Well
time to drop the pen and sleep.
