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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Rugby men show thier team spirit outside the exhibition in Bordeaux.
An exhibition running
until December 31 at
the musée de
Aquitaine in Bordeaux, takes
visitors through the cultural
phenomenon that is rugby.
The footsteps of rugby
player Walter Spanghero
follow the the history, the
origin and the evolution of
the game, from the moment
when William Webb Ellis
(1807-1872) broke all rules
while playing football; held
the ball in his hand and ran
to stop his opponents from
scoring, to its spread through
the world.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
With points to catch
up in the opening
stages of the World
Cup tournament, French
rugby fans will no doubt be
flocking to the small chapel
of Notre-Dame-du-Rugby.
Built on the site of a Roman
oratory in 1861, is in the
small village of Larrivière-
Saint-Sevin in the Landes
region and is dedicated to
God and rugby in fairly
equal parts.
In 1963, three members
of the Dax XV, Jean Othats,
Emile Carrere and Raymond
Albaledejo, died in a car
crash. The Abbot, Michel
Devert, who was heavily
involved with the youth of
the area and a keen rugby
man, decided to dedicate the
chapel to rugby and
rugby players.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
The Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux (CUB) has given the
green light for the controversial drawbridge spanning the
Garonne between the Bastide and Bataclan. The bridge would
be raised to allow visiting liners upriver so tourists can
disembark in the town centre. A tram/train service will use
the bridge when lowered. The contract for the work has gone
to a subsidiary of Vinci, GTM-GCS.
A group of associations in favour of a tunnel instead of
the bridge project have criticised the preliminary studies
carried out by the CUB as sketchy and even fallacious. The
project, mooted already 10 years ago, aims to relieve the
regular bottlenecks of traffic on the Pont de Pierre.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Some have tried, and so
far all have failed. But
the Canadian-based
company Vermilion believes
that oil in commercial
quantities can be found off
the coast of France, and have
started the second and most
significant phase of their
quest for black gold in the
Bay of Biscay. After a
prolonged campaign taking
3D seismic surveys of
geological structures deep
below the seabed, their first
exploration well, the Orca-1,
started drilling on August 26,
some 40km offshore from
Arcachon.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
As this year’s apple
harvest comes in,
farmers are feeling the
effects of an unstable season.
Monsieur Nicolas Texier,
an apple producer on 80ha of
land at Jumilhac-le-Grand
and Angoisse, said:
“The rain was good for
us this summer as I haven’t
had to water the trees much.
However, a much higher
proportion than usual will be
sold for processing, due to
the heavy hail in July.
“The apples grew to full
size but they’re blemished so
no longer qualify for the
(AOC) Limousin apple.
Apples sold for processing
are worth less than AOC
ones, so we’re expecting less
profit this year.”
Pictured is Suzanne
Heselton, one of hundreds of
apple pickers helping with
this year’s apple harvest in
Jumilhac-le-Grand. “The first
few days were hard,” she
said, “but I’m enjoying
it now.”
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