This is almost the same photo from yesterday, I just pivoted away from the "Escape Yourself" storefront for a shot of the street without the big sign in English. You can see how the street heads downhill. The center of Angoulême is on a plateau above the Charente River valley. All roads lead up. Or down.
On Tuesday, our first full day in the area, we settled in after our morning outing and lunch to watch some tennis and other things via the internet. The rental house had a basic tv package called TNT, Télévision Numérique Terrestre. I think that could be translated to "land-based digital television." It's a mix of mostly national and some local television channels that are received free of charge off the air with a special antenna. Some of the stations we wanted to watch are not available on TNT, so we hooked the tv up to Ken's laptop to access our own tv package on the internet.
Little did we know that the house's internet access was limited, like a cell phone, and we bumped up against the limit for the current billing cycle. The feed got so slow that it was impossible to watch television and nearly impossible to upload a blog post. Hence our "technical difficulties" last week. We talked to the owners and they told us that this hadn't happened before. We felt bad about it, but we didn't know about the limit; our own package at home is not limited at all. They contacted their service provider and, after some initial confusion, were able to increase the limit. But it took a while to kick in.
That's so frustrating about hitting a limit on internet. The street is fascinating and funky. The buildings could use some fresh paint (and rust-proofing).
ReplyDeleteI love to walk on streets like that one.
ReplyDeleteEvelyn