19 octobre 2008

Guinness, pizza and football

L'été indien clings on. A brief interruption late last week for a couple of cool, cloudier days, but le soleil returned for the weekend. Witness the photo below of the Passerelle du College reflected in the calm Rhone this afternoon.
Yesterday we took advantage of the nice weather by spending the afternoon in the pub. Though finding a pub showing the appropriate match did necessitate a long walk in the sunshine. Eventually persuaded an American barman in an Irish pub to show the English game on a French channel. And le club londonien le plus français eventually obliged with a win.

Afterwards we meandered to Gerland to watch a live game, stopping on the way for a pizza. Just complete the cosmopolitan day. Les gones, still smarting from an inhabitual 3-0 thrashing in their last game struggled for form again, and we slightly lucky in the end to fight back for a 2-2 draw against Lille. Reasonably entertaining game, particularly listening to the moans and complaints from our season-ticket holding neighbours.

Another quiet week ahead. La bienheureuse is travelling again, though a routine overnight trip to Germany this time. And I inch closer to the finale of oeuvre numéro 3...