So I don't have much new to tell everyone because I've been laid up for the past five days with the flu (which really sucked), but I'll fill you in on the events surrounding the Bande Dessin Festival which was the first weekend of February. Bande Dessin Festival
Angouleme isn't known for much except for its two museums (the paper museum and comic book museum) and its two festivals Les Gastronomades (a huge food festival at the end of November which was a great festival with free wine tasting and very tasty free food to soak up all the free alcohol you drink) and Le Bande Dessin which is a huge comic book festival. Basically all the nerds, freaks and geeks of France, Europe and from all around the world gather here for a long weekend of well 'geekin out'. Buildings were set up all over town and many businesses hosted some of the different themes of the festival. Even the towns famous Cathedral (which is the only one I visited because it was free and my friends I was with wanted to see it) had comics in it that was the "European Capitals" theme bit of the comics tour (I thought it was ironic that all the capital comics were politically aimed and housed in a church...leave it to the french to not seperate government and religion). People dressed in their favorite comic book character outfits and just people dressed to be weird were running around all over town. Needless to say I didn't partake in much of the festivities seeing as I'm not a comic book reader and don't enjoy surrounding myself by people who grew up loving Dungeons and Dragons and playing Magic cards, but I admit that some of the drawings I saw were pretty cool and it was nice to have a lot of new people in town to hang out with in the evenings. The nightlife in Angouleme was more fun
then usual with new faces and a lot more people. Some friends and me hit up a rock concert and then went out dancing until all hours of the morning (literally, I think we made it home around 6 am). Some friends from Limoges had came over and visited for the festival and some other people in the tower had friends over for the festival too so the tower was completely packed of people and life. So all in all it was a very fun loooooong weekend.
Angouleme isn't known for much except for its two museums (the paper museum and comic book museum) and its two festivals Les Gastronomades (a huge food festival at the end of November which was a great festival with free wine tasting and very tasty free food to soak up all the free alcohol you drink) and Le Bande Dessin which is a huge comic book festival. Basically all the nerds, freaks and geeks of France, Europe and from all around the world gather here for a long weekend of well 'geekin out'. Buildings were set up all over town and many businesses hosted some of the different themes of the festival. Even the towns famous Cathedral (which is the only one I visited because it was free and my friends I was with wanted to see it) had comics in it that was the "European Capitals" theme bit of the comics tour (I thought it was ironic that all the capital comics were politically aimed and housed in a church...leave it to the french to not seperate government and religion). People dressed in their favorite comic book character outfits and just people dressed to be weird were running around all over town. Needless to say I didn't partake in much of the festivities seeing as I'm not a comic book reader and don't enjoy surrounding myself by people who grew up loving Dungeons and Dragons and playing Magic cards, but I admit that some of the drawings I saw were pretty cool and it was nice to have a lot of new people in town to hang out with in the evenings. The nightlife in Angouleme was more fun
then usual with new faces and a lot more people. Some friends and me hit up a rock concert and then went out dancing until all hours of the morning (literally, I think we made it home around 6 am). Some friends from Limoges had came over and visited for the festival and some other people in the tower had friends over for the festival too so the tower was completely packed of people and life. So all in all it was a very fun loooooong weekend.I'll try to post my Itinerary for my trip to Greece and Egypt up on here a little later today. LoveYa. Katie
Katie,
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