SpaceBass: Europe 2004
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Eventually, we made it up to the top of the hill and found a museum in the side of the church that we had spied from below. After a few tense moments haggling over the price of admission with the attendant at the front desk, we learned that that no amount of money would allow us entrance. Evidently in France when the doors are open, the lights are on, and the smiling attendant waits at her post, it means the museum is closed. And the smile turns out to be pretty ephemeral if you try to argue with her about it.

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Forsaking the museum, which was probably for suckers anyway, we wandered around the church grounds looking for something, anything, to give us reason to be there. After the fourteenth circuit or so, it was pretty clear we were fighting a losing battle. At least, we thought to ourselves, we didn't waste a whole lot of time or effort getting up there. Hard to believe that only a half-hour earlier we had been cowering in the basement of some building, hoping against hope that the feral crowds roaming the streets in pursuit of us would not detect the noisome stench caused by us fearfully filling our pants with excrement. Oh wait, I wasn't supposed to talk about that. Um, hard to believe we hadn't even had lunch yet!

We desperately searched for more interesting things to take pictures of, settling on a cyclone fence with a bunch of floral crap around it, totally obscuring it. Man, that would have been a great picture if someone would have just cut all those plants down or poisoned them and killed them off or something. Nothing says "Cannes" like a wire mesh fence!

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We wasted a bit more time taking about four hundred pictures of the beach and bay, three hundred and ninety-eight of which we immediately deleted. I suddenly recalled the video option on my camera and impetuously used it to shoot a moving panorama that would later require a liberal dose of Dramamine after watching.


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After that, our options were pretty much exhausted. We decided to head back down the hill, because someone had mentioned lunch earlier in this page and it made us remember how hungry we were.

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