By train to The Train (Par train au Train)

On Monday 14th March 2011 I'm off on another 'musical adventure', and it would be nice if you could join me, in spirit if not in person, by reading the postings which I hope to create on a regular basis during the trip. Peut-être j'écrirai un peu en francais aussi, pour mes amies/amis quebecoises et russes. (Может быть, несколько слов на русском языке тоже!).


As you may have deduced from the title of this posting, my journey will involve travel by train, .... several trains in fact. At journey's end another train - Le Train Theatre in Portes-lès-Valence, the venue for "Aah Les Déferlantes", a festival of North American (mainly québecoix) music. I've never been to this part of France before, apart from flashing through on a TGV en route to Marseille, so it's going to be a bit of an adventure really. So, it's six nights in the Rhone Valley, with eight concerts in five days, and then two nights in Paris, with one further concert (or two if I can find something appealing on Sunday 20th).Tomorrow I'll give you more details about the artistes I hope to be seeing.  

Travelling alone in "foreign parts" is always a bit of a challenge, particularly linguistically, but it's a challenge which, for the most part, I quite enjoy. 

Just as well, I suppose!


Ah, he's back.

See you tomorrow, hopefully .....