Blog in France

Well, seen everthing now! This is how we found the fishing cabin this morning, after the group of lads that had rented it for a week left. When they arrived it was spotless. Clients are asked to leave the facilities as they found them. Anyone out there in the hospitality...

I’m writing this at 3 am. Can’t sleep. Yesterday was a Bad Day. It started off OK in the morning. We went for a family bike ride. We headed into Tercillat, and then took a road we’d never been along before. Along it we came across the steepest hill we’ve...

Skoda sponsor the TdF and provide 300 vehicles for it each year This year, 2011, the caravan, a 45-minute long procession, consists of : 160 crazy vehicles 600 people 33 brand names 16 million freebies 12 gendarmes 4 traffic regulator motorcyclists 3 medical cars   A couple of other facts. Each...

It’s summer, so time to be organising our winter fuel. We’ve started chopping and splitting logs again, and now Ruadhri is making his contribution. He’s in charge of producing paper briquettes. We continually accumulate scarily ridiculous amounts of paper – the dreaded ‘pub’ that comes every Tuesday, newspapers (but no...

Frédéric Fontanier with his amazing paintings During my last visit to the Boussac Tourist Office, I picked up a flyer advertising an art expo at Prébenoit Abbey. It was intriguingly entitled ‘Mer et Tulipes’ (sea and tulips), but it was only a couple of days later that I looked at...