Hi all.
I just returned from my holidays last night and as promised here's a quick resume of what I've been doing for the past couple of weeks.
It started out on june 26th when I went to Copenhagen to visit a friend and watch what was to be Swedens last game in the European Soccer Finals.
Early next morning we went to Roskilde only to stand in line for 8 hours to get into the Festival. ?No worries though: We'd been looking forward to this event for so long that nothing was going to bring us down.
The weather started out nicely but the second morning we woke up to heavy rain. Still no problems since we had a pretty solid big tent set up on high ground which would keep out most of the water. ...And of course there's no problem so big it can't be solved with sufficient consumption of beer.
Morale did however start to lower when the entire camping area was transformed into a 15cm layer of sticky mud. To top it of one of the top names: David Bowie had to cancel ?due to a bad shoulder (Though I prefer to think it was because of the lollipop stick he got in his eye.) ...More beer was definitely going to be needed!
On thursday the concerts began.
I went to see the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Ben Harper, Santana, Franz Ferdinand, Basement Jaxx + a couple of Danish bands (there was probably some more but I can't really remember
)By now the entire festival area had turned into somthing right out of the trenches of WW1 or the WW2 Eastern Front. ?The entire lower camping area had become a huge lake and everythinig else was just covered in stinking mud -including the people (actually I'm not really sure if it WAS in fact people or Feral Orks!
)All in all a great -if rather wet- festival. As long as we had our Beer Bong and plenty of beer we were happy. Looking forward to next year!
After a quick (and much needed) shower i flew to Paris to meet with the rest of my family. Paris is always a pleasure to visit and after spending a couple of days there we drove to Normandy.
Ironically the weather here was almost as bad as Roskilde but of course that's less of a problem when you are going to see historical sitesand museums most of the time anyway.
Saw Omaha Beach, the Arromanches (sp?) Bayeux and Mont Saint Michel omong other things. All very interesting places. The WW1 and 2 memorials were of course intersing but I also enjoyed the medieval sites very much. Mont Saint Michel was particularly impressive!
The Bayeux tapestry which depicts William the Conqueror's campaign in England is definitely also worth a visit.
Still a couple of weeks worth of holidays left which I'm going to spend here in Denmark. The weather if getting better but in case it should start to rain again there's allways plenty of Epic minis which need painting
Cheers!
