31 juillet 2006

The Maison du "Off" closed its doors for the end of the Festival

Le "Conservatoire de Musique" devenu une des nombreuses Maisons du "Off" durant tout le mois de juillet pour le festival, a clos ses portes. Les rues d'Avignon ont perdu les parades qui défilent et les festivaliers. Se reconnaissent à présent les touristes venus du monde entier pour découvrir la ville tandis que ses habitants la désertent pour d'autres contrées plus au nord ou peut-être un semblant de fraîcheur prés de la mer ou dans les alpages.

The “Academy of Music” become one of the many Houses of “Off” during all July for the festival, closed its doors. The Avignon's streets lost the parades which ravel and the festival ones. Now, we can recognize the tourists come from the whole world discovering the city while its inhabitants desert it for other regions more in north or perhaps a pretence of freshness meadows of the sea or in the mountain pastures.

3 commentaires:

Annie a dit…

I've always heard that in France in August only the tourists are in town. Of course, there have to be some French there to feed and house the entertain, right?

Anonyme a dit…

Lots of great architecture on your site. Thanks for sharing.

edwin s a dit…

A friend of mine just returned from the festival and she said it was amazing! She only had glowing reviews of Avignon.