Today David (my son) arrived in Moissac on his way to Germany where he is competing in the Boomerang World Championships. As current Australian Champion, he has been selected in the Australian team and will also compete in the individual events. Despite the boomerang being “invented” in Australia, they are not the best team in the world, but will give it a go and are sure to enjoy the party.

While waiting for David to arrive at Moissac station, I climbed the overpass stairs to get a photo of the roof of La Maison. This is the first time I have done this since the Lightwell glass roof was installed. While the remodelled skylights on the rest of the roof look relatively inconspicuous, there is just no missing the Lightwell roof. We just hope that no one up the hill behind the station is affected by sun reflecting off the glass and into their homes!

Having settled David into his room at La Maison, we then walked along the river down to the barge. As we crossed the canal, we noticed a large school of 30cm fish swimming in the canal under the bridge. Who said canal water is not healthy (at least for fish)?

As we approached Kanumbra on the quai, we noticed a new arrival (Villa Luise) that had some interesting adornments on the bow and rudder.

Since David is only in Moissac for a couple of days, we decided to show him one of our favourite nearby towns, Lauzerte. This is one of the towns that Pans on Fire played at in 2014, and is also well-known for its wall sculptures.

After we arrived back from Lauzerte, the weather turned nasty again, with very heavy rain and strong winds.

In such conditions, therefore, we were very surprised to see the small commercial passenger boat Saint Andre still operating, with lots of passengers up the front, including many children, and not a life jacket in sight. Hopefully, they had plenty (with the right sizes) stored on board somewhere.

In the evening we went to dinner at Irene and John Plunkett’s (a long-standing invitation that we were finally able to coordinate) before being joined by many other Moissac friends at their house. We then all went to a concert at the Uvarium. It started out with fairly traditional French music (accordians etc), but later in the night that was replaced by a Brazilian dance group, with lots of feather-clad ladies and a couple of guys doing Capoeira dancing. Quite a spectacle.