Hello my dear Patrons.
I hope you're doing well and not suffering too much of the heat wave.
Here, after 2 days of intense pain and dizziness, heat and especially the combination with humidity settled down a bit and I could feel better. Meaning pain is still here all the time and so are the vertigos and fatigue but it's manageable when you are used to it ^^
The visit we had planned on Monday was delayed until today ,and yesterday we could visit an old but still running sewing thread factory. Unfortunately I couldn't see the machines working or the coloring process either because everything was stopped for the annual holidays .
It was very interesting and not too far from home. I really think this place could make a cool background for a photoshoot. I'm thinking of Suicide squad Harley's Quinn for example ^^,,,
After this place, we also went to Ocna's saline and mud baths. They are reputed for their anti inflammatory action on pain and chronic illness so I absolutely wanted to have a try. It was also very close to the place my dad lives.
But let the pictures talk :)
Ready to go :

Piles of raw cotton everywhere. It was very smelly and I was happy I had taken antihistamines before going o_o. It didn't stop me from having a bad sore throat for the next 2 days though.


This machines were my favorites !



Meanwhile, from the backstages XD:

This machine looks so cool






Outside the factory XD:

HIII HANNN *french sound of a donkey*


I believe this street is not optimized XD

There were also some cool cars in a garage

I also found something quite extraordinary:
Indeed the person owning the factory told me he had an abandoned stock of leather in one of his locals. The company people who rented it disappeared without paying the rent and left everything behind them.
The guy said I could take everything for free if I wanted, and I was like : !!o_o !!
So now I need to find a way to get a part of the stock back to France and see how many friends are interested to share the shipping costs with me to get some because I can't let this stock to rot , poor animals would be dead for nothing >< and if it can be used for costumes or RP so it's better than anything else.
There was more than showing on the picture and there was also an enormous bag of leather stripes and belts. I forgot to take some for me ( I need black leather stripes to make Harley's holster)

I'll also make another post with the Ocna's baths summary:) tomorrow.
And then another post with the pics of the place we finally could go today : a salt mine used as a touristic and therapeutic place.
Stay tuned !
