Home again

Rather a long time since my last post. However, since then I have been to Cambridge, Mallorca, Leeds, Southampton, Oxford and Reading, finally back to Castres, and family life on Tuesday night.

Here's some pictures of Mallorca, where the COQ was playing two family concerts. It's a treat to be able to sit outside in the November sun, with a beer and a harbour view, and dream up plans for the next stage of ocarina world domination. The palm trees were in the courtyard of our hotel. The fancy building is the La Caixa cultural centre where we played. It was also hosting an impressive exhibition of Edvard Munch, specially assembled for Palma. Not bad.

Leeds, where we played next, is less obviously a tourist attraction (much less, actually), but has a very nice venue called, imaginatively, The Venue. Audience participation was part of the deal, so we got them all to blast along with Also Sprach Zarathustra. Dangerously ambitious, but it just about worked.

Enough for now.

(p.s. some of the pics have disappeared.... I'll try to get them back again)