The calm before....

... market day again today and unlike yesterday the stalls were out in force as were the shoppers.We joined the crowds and filled up our market sack with fruit, persille, olives, tomatoes and black pudding.

Following lunch in the apartment we set off to walk to Parc de la Colombiere around 2.5kms on the south side of the city,

Once we cleared the central city there was a roundabout, Place du President Wilson, with a fountain  in the middle and two columns marking the southern side

Continuing on we walked down a long tree covered footpath running adjacent to Cours General de Gaulleto another roundabout, this one containing Monument aux Morts (war memorial)and then down another tree covered footpath until we entered the park which is 33 hectares in size and has been a public park since the 17th century and was recognised as a historic monument in 1925.

The park is not green space as we know it but a semi forest with numerous pathways through it - a thinned our Redwood Forest (Rotorua) is the best way I can describe it

After sitting in the shade for a while and having watched insects much like ladybirds scurrying about 
we headed back to the city on the way noticing that Dijon might have a fruit fly or similar unwanted pest in town if the traps that we saw in the trees are any indication Arrived back in the city to an absolute cacophony of sound as the two stages were doing sound checks for tonight’s concert/s. 

There are two fully equipped stages with sound systems you expect to see at a Fleetwood Mac concert at say Mount Smart but the area is only approximately a quarter the size of Mount Smart.

We can only guess how lively and noisy town will be tonight the action being within a 75m radius of where the apartment is situated and I don’t sense this building has soundproof windows!

Kms driven today:0