Blog in France

How to Travel on an Overnight Bus I’m just back from a visit to The Hague in Holland, to visit daughter Caiti. It was a four-day visit with a night’s travelling on Flixbus at either end between her city and Paris. There was also an hour in the car to...

The Perplexing Rules of French Restaurants Last week Chris and I escaped to Cantal for a few days. We left the farm in the capable hands of Benj, Jackie and Rors and set off into the snow. Late October saw a blast of cold air sweep in from somewhere bringing...

A monumental ride to Château d’Ars We’ve long intended to visit Château d’Ars – how could we resist a place with that name! And finally, yesterday, we got round to it – by bike. It was a round trip of 68km and over 700m of climbing, which isn’t bad going...

Now that Caiti has met her surprise hamster, I can tell you all about her. At least, we think it’s a her. The pet shop assistant was a bit vague, saying it’s hard to tell males from females, but we’re going to go with her being a lady hamster. Caiti’s...

There’s been a late-summer surge of babies here at Les Fragnes. First came some finches. I bought a pale grey zebra finch, Clovis, to replace my last male who flew away. I popped him in with Cora (or possibly it was Dora, Flora, Laura or Norah – it’s hard to...