Bike Riding Maestro of Mozart in the Jungle
Knowing that we were off for
a bit today we wanted to get the final episodes of The Young Pope starring Jude
Law and Diane Keaton who are both brilliant yet again in this frankly peculiar and
irreverent but riveting story. I can see that some people might not be able to
cope with all the strands as they unravel.
The Young Pope
We also made it to the end
of the next series of Mozart in the Jungle that is simply brilliant and so very
different. No car chases, no helicopter crashes just a wonderfully lifting
series of programmes about a New York Orchestra and its quirky little genius conductor
and the lives of the musicians. We have loved it, and it is nominated for a Golden
Globe and rightly so
Maestro Rodigo takes the Orchestra to a prison
Gael Garcia Bernal is so charismatic
as the totally off the wall conductor. Bernadette Peters is delicious
throughout and Malcolm McDowell is for funny, sad and wicked.
Lola Kirke is the love
interest if you can wait through all the episodes to get the oboist and the Maestro
properly or rather improperly together.
Rodrigo with one of his encounters with famous musical spirits
The Conductor and his Assistant/oboe player played by Lola Kirke
We left home at 6am this morning,
caught the 9am Shuttle and arrived in France at 10.40 am. The road in France was not
as crazily filled with traffic as it was on the way to the tunnel at Ashford. We
have been travelling this route for at least forty years and 99% of the runs we
find that it is at least five degrees warmer in Burgundy than it is at home in
the UK. This time however we left home with 8 degrees and the temperature slowly
dropped as the day went on and by the time we got to Dijon it had started to snow and we hit zero
by the time we arrived at our hotel in Beaune. 520 miles total.
Jude Law as The Young Pope, smoking in the Vatican
Wildlife count on the road:
One Heron
Nineteen Buzzards!
Five Kestrels’
Eight Deer
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