The Black Strokes – World Famous in the Midi-Pyrennes?

During our lunch stopover at Castelnaudary on Tuesday, a France3 tv crew arrived to film the equivalent of Close-up or Campbell Live piece on the Rallaye (only with more attractive camera-crew). Terry was subsequently interviewed (in French) later that afternoon and the piece appeared on TV the following night. You can access the video
here

On Wednesday Terry was interviewed again by a journalist for a piece which appeared in a Saturday paper. Both interviewers admired our distinctive T-shirts (more about the design later but first a quick thanks to Liz and her family), wanted to know why we were participating and how we were enjoying it. The TV crew were also interested in the Rallaye’s NZ equivalent, a proposed row along the Waikato from Taupo to Mercer in March next year.

Finally for a perspective on the Rallaye from another crew, check out this post by the French Servrir crew who are based in what looks to be a spectacular venue on a lake near Chamonix in the French Alps. Unless my French is very much mistaken there are some very generous comments about us. Merci beaucoup Henri. Aviron Sevrier blog

(For our overeas readers the “World-famous” comment is a reference to a New Zealand advertising campaign for a soft drink only available in New Zealand).