{"id":6577,"date":"2022-01-02T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2022-01-02T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:40:51","slug":"sunday-02-january-bonne-annee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-02-january-bonne-annee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 02 January – Bonne Ann\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope you all had very happy Christmases and enjoyed whatever it was you chose to do, if anything, to see in the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In past years, my first blog of January has been a summary of everything we had achieved in the previous 12 months.\u00a0 This year, I will delay that to next week and use this week\u2019s blog to showcase a couple of things we have done over the last 2 festive weeks to show that Kergudon is the ideal place to spend a Christmas and \/ or New Year with family and friends (human or canine!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than change a couple of g\u00eetes over as we said goodbye to some guests and welcomed others, I have not done a huge amount of work.  With the public holidays generally falling at the weekends over the holiday, David has worked his usual hours in Brest as well as had his private clients.  However, he too has managed to have some restful, festive days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our time over Christmas and New Year is divided between spending time outside on long walks with Garratt and Brandon and chilling out in front of the fire with something lovely to eat and drink.  We were helped in the former by having some pretty good weather and, as the UK, amazingly mild temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week prior to Christmas we visited our departmental \u2018capital\u2019, Quimper<\/a>, with a few friends to look at the Christmas lights.\u00a0 Quimper is a small but very pretty city anyway, with lots of attractive buildings and multiple bridges crossing the river Odet which are always well maintained with flowers and, at Christmas, lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quimper bridges illuminated for Christmas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The main attraction at Christmas is a Son et Lumiere (sound and light) show which is centred on the fa\u00e7ade of the cathedral.\u00a0 We have never seen this before, but our friends had been often and recommended a visit.\u00a0 It was quite impressive.\u00a0 The show started with a slightly obscure group of stilt walkers (illuminated from within their costumes) doing Breton dancing in front of the cathedral.\u00a0 However, the actual Son et Lumiere was worth watching and animated the history of Brittany on the fa\u00e7ade of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illuminated stilt dancers in Quimper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The accuracy of the lights to illuminate very small areas of the cathedral\u2019s fa\u00e7ade and effectively \u2018paint\u2019 pictures on the face was incredible.  We had seen this a couple of years ago on one of the local church calvaires (stone crosses) which had been \u2018repainted\u2019 in its original colour scheme by light.  The cathedral display was on a much larger scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These photos barely do it justice owing to the scale but show the face unlit, then with 2 of the \u2018pictures\u2019 projected onto the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The video is a much better demonstration of the effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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