Back from France

I had some really seriously chilled weeks in this fantastic house in the Perigord-Dordogne, France. I was planning to dive into the upcoming Dijk/Solomon Burke album as well as rehearsing my own tunes, but instead I dove headfirst into this great cookbook by La Mazille, written in 1929 about the Perigord cuisine.
So, my days consisted of figuring out what to have for dinner (and the day after), get the ingredients and hard labour in the very well equipped kitchen.
The Perigord is well known for its "farci", meaning stuffing. Furthermore it's truffles, canard, oie, lamproie and whatnot...
It was also an excellent time to take up ye olde mountainbike, golfclub and I even dusted off my tennisracket!
Anyway; the house was so inspiring I'm trying to get a (some) project(s) done there sometime(s). Hell, I even wrote two tunes in between!
Meanwhile I'm finishing the Acda en de Munnik (My holiday buddies and taste de cuisiniers!) album, writing for the Solomon album and also the new Dijk album. Also I'm really excited about what's gonna happen with Catching Ophelia the upcoming months; Wanda and I decided to combine our releases giving a hell of a party in Paradiso on oct. 12th. Hope you can be there too!