Bouchon Barrou

Grande Rue in Barrou sometimes is not quite grande enough as we witnessed yesterday on our way back from our walk.

Last look...

My last look back on our great day out with Simon & Susan.  Liked how the lights of car above were used as a showroom.

This one had even more display potential. My suggestion to the French owner that he could keep some gold fish in it was met by only a slight touch of amusement!

This owner's mother-in-law was apparently kept in his boot!

I liked this car on a number of levels.

Classic lawlessness...

One of the fun things about being involved the Le Blanc bouchon from a drivers prospective is the ability to disobey the rules and cause disruption. With well organised marshalling by the motor cyclists there was no need to stop at junctions and parking was 'as you want'. Like on the middle of a mini roundabout...

or across a junction.

That wasn't  'Célestine' badly parked btw - Simon did that perfectly

Hip hip hooray...being hippies for the day

Yesterday we were invited to join Simon & Susan in 'Célestine', their fab classic Citreon for the bi-annual heritage traffic jam (bouchon) at le Blanc. The event emulates the traffic disruption that used to occur in major towns before the introduction of auto-routes. As you can see we chose to dress up from the day (helped by contributions for Cally & Jane)

We met up with the other vintage car owners (and hippies) at the 'salle polyvalente' car park in the town... 

before heading off in two groups through the regional park of La Brenne.

We stopped at the lake at La Gabriere for a bit of sustenance.

Where everyone was on their best behaviour.

Then it was back to the 'salle polyvalente' in Le Blanc for a spot of lunch with our hosts and over 500 others.

Simon had parked 'Célestine' in good company so we took the opportunity to have a look at the other cars on display.

Then it was on to the main event...blocking the traffic in the town! This is acheived by continually circuiting the town until the traffic snarls up, helped by the occasional overheated engine

It was good to see so many locals had turned out to witness the mayhem. 

Great fun, with Simon revelling in the free spirit of the day, as can be seen in this pic of Susan's