Day 72 of the second confinement period

The comic book is being worked on

Another Great Classic There was on Friday night on ARTE television a documentary on Eric Clapton followed by a concert from 2005 in the Albert Hall, London. Well worth a watch if yoou like music. Being on ARTE, you can get the commentary in German if this is your prefered language to French. Here is the link (click here for German) for the TV program. The concert can be found here. The 1st piece is enough to send shivers down my spine. Blues at its best.

Black Magic Woman

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▫️Normally and for the past week or so, the daily vaccinations data is released by the Health Ministry every evening by 9pm. No such luck yesterday and I even cannot access the ministry’s web site this morning. I wonder what is going on.

▫️ Curfew

The list of the eight new departments under tightened curfews from 6 p.m. is now known after successive announcements on Saturday 9 January. The Bouches-du-Rhône, Cher, Côte-d’Or, Allier, Haut-Rhin and Var joined Bas-Rhin and Vaucluse, already officially announced on Friday. In the afternoon, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, had confirmed that the curfew would be brought forward in eight new departments. It will come into force from Sunday 10 January, except in the Var, where it will be Tuesday 12 January.

▫️Snow

It is snowing all around us. If you want tp gp to the mountains, you’ll eed the right equipment on your car.

▫️ Toulouse-Blagnac: Ryanair soon to return with 15 Spring-Summer destinations

At Toulouse-Blagnac airport, it will soon be the return of Ryanair, which will reopen on March 28th its Toulouse-Blagnac base which was totally closed this winter. Already on the programme: about fifteen destinations in 10 countries: Belgium, Germany, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Here are the details of this Spring-Summer 2021 programme:

⇢Alicante (2 flights per week, Monday and Friday);
⇢Athens (Tuesday and Saturday);
⇢Berlin-Brandenburg (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday);
⇢Brussels-Charleroi (daily flights);
⇢Dublin (daily flights);
⇢Edinburgh (Monday and Friday) :
⇢Fez (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) ;
⇢Lisbon (daily flights);
⇢London-Stansted (daily flights);
⇢Malta (Thursday and Sunday);
⇢Marrakech (Monday and Thursday);
⇢Naples (Wednesday and Sunday);
⇢Palermo (Monday and Friday);
⇢Palma de Mallorca (Monday and Friday);
⇢Seville (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday).

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▫️Vaccinations report

No new data has been communicated yesterday

The number of vaccinations so far in France is fairly small but improving. The governement is keeping to the target of 1 Million by the end of January (or so). Fingers crossed.

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▫️ The United States suspends customs reprisals against France

These 25% taxes, which were to affect $1.3 billion in annual imports, were decided in response to Paris’ decision to tax certain American digital companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. They were to take effect on Wednesday. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, their suspension will allow the United States to engage in a targeted response.

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▫️ Dakar Rally 2021