More Fetes photos appeared from Kaz & Iain. They were everywhere during the Fetes, taking photos from all sorts of vantage points on and off the water, as these shots from Irene Plunkett demonstrate.

Today the band attended a Medieval Music Workshop at the old Carmelite Convent on the hill above the Abbey. Jödel Grasset explained the history of many medieval music instruments and then proceeded to show how they were played and how they sounded.

At lunchtime, we went out to the courtyard in the middle of the convent for a lunch prepared by the staff at the Convent (now an accommodation hostel), where we also discovered some great views over the town.

In the afternoon, we returned to the workshop where Jödel produced a concert on the instruments, playing all the instruments himself and with the aid of a modern looping machine, as shown below, laying down one track on top of another until he had the whole concert sound. A great mixture of old and new.

After the workshop, many of us retired to le Bureau for a couple of drinks, including Nico and Massa - like father, like son! We then headed up for dinner at the Chinese Restaurant just near the house. After a hearty feast, the proprietor brought out some complementary saki shot glass drinks, and we liked them so much that we bought another round and then Monica bought the glasses for a party back home - they make good eye-glasses. We then headed back to the house for a night-cap, where Nicole did her best to teach Sarah (Nico’s sister) how to be a kangaroo. She must have done a good job, because a few weeks later, Sarah decided to come to Australia for a few months later this year (as of 2017, this has turned into a couple of years - like brother, like sister!).