Fingerprints

I took a "shower" so as not to flood the place again, and after breakfast we went to see the Village des Bories, which is an outdoor museum of ruins of a variety of stone buildings from the 12th century that were built without mortar or cement of any kind. The stones just stay together based on how they are pieced together and gravity. Next we made a rather short stop in the village of Gordes to see the markets there and get some shots of the village, which is perched nicely upon the hills. We got the best "postcard" pictures of the shoot (in France) there. Gordes is a very lovely village, but contrasts greatly to Goult, where we're staying. Gordes sees thousands of tourists a day, while Goult sees a few hundred. Gordes is ... read more

The sun was shining brightly and the sky was a nice deep blue when I woke up, which was great news. We had breakfast in the front sun room and Patrick took us to a farmer's market where we shot for a little bit before moving on to a Lavender museum. At that point, Patrick had to go for a little while, so we took a taxi to the town of Isle sur la Sorgue, where all sorts of antiques were for sale along the main drag of town. We wandered through all the stands, shooting along the way, and had lunch at a place along the water. After lunch we met up with our taxi again we went towards the towns of Lacoste and Bonnieux in order to try to get good shots of ... read more

We had breakfast downstairs at Patrick's, and then headed off to a small winery called Domain Marie where we did a short interview with the winemaker. It was a very pretty vineyard and wine storage area, but the rain was still coming down, so we won't be showing it on TV in its full glory. We stopped briefly at a cork screw museum, but barely spent any time there before they closed. We moved onto where our lunch would be, a restaurant called Blue de Tois, where we filmed the chef, also named Patrick, as he grilled and rotisseried prawns, pork, lamb, duck, and a huge steak. Patrick used to be in car finance, and changed careers and accepted a huge pay decrease to open the restaurant, but it is very nice and they're very ... read more

We had Ian Luck as our driver again today, and started out with a tour of some of the London trousity sights. We saw and shot Big Ben and Parliament (got stopped by the police there), saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, walked through St. James Park, and wandered around outside Westminister Abbey. Our 1st restaurant of the day was at a hotel called Montague on the Garden, which had a big deck in back with a BBQ and they made hamburgers and steaks and at least a little bit of that will make it into the show I'm sure. That was in the Bloomsbury area, and then we made our way to a restaurant called Roast, where we filmed the preparation and cooking of English roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. The ... read more

I woke up to great weather in Manchester, but we didn't need it because we weren't filming there today. We hopped on a quick flight to Heathrow and by around noon we were checking into our small B&B. We had lunch at a local pub (fish and chips for me) and then our driver took us to our first shoot in the city at a restaurant attached to a pub called The Gun. Along the way our driver, Ian Luck (who gives a London Rock 'n' Roll tour and is full of bits of wisdom and trivia), pointed out a bunch of neat items of interest, and we got lost once we got close to the restaurant because it was in quite an odd spot. We shot a nice little segment that would have been even ... read more