Wednesday was a day of mostly snoozing and recovering from our colds. I wandered around town once I got up the energy, did a little exploring. Marcus and Jimmy and some of the others checked out the local photography museum, which used to be a hotel. Other than that, we flaked out on the couch, watched movies and checked email.

Thursday, Marcus played a showcase at Spliff, a nice indie record store in Clermont-Ferrand. Shoppers gathered in the back of the room to watch, and local TV was there again to film the event.

From there Marcus had to pack up quickly and high-tail it over to Radio Campus 93.3, where we had an hour-long interview and showcase. This was a lot of fun. They had a translator for us - she was awesome, I want to bring a translator everywhere now! They asked us to play DJ and bring a few tracks by other artists as well, so we gave them a lengthy list of tracks by some of our Vancouver friends, and so out of those, Mongoose, Reid Jamieson and Parlour Steps made it to the airwaves of France. Marcus played a live set of four songs. If you missed it on Thursday, the show will be rebroadcast on Sunday, October 10 at 5pm local time - that’s 8AM PST / 11 AM EST.

After the radio show, we headed to a restaurant near Thomas’s place for a terrific sampling of local organic cheeses, meats and wine. And yes, cheese has definitely been a recurring theme on this trip… and a good one!

This morning we’re packing up for the trip to Paris, where we play at Truskel at 8:00pm. Very excited about this one!