Blog in France

#The bad mountain We don’t often start geocaching while the moon is still up, but this morning we had to take Benj to Gueret station to catch his train. He was back to uni today. It’s a shame to just drive there and back, and since it’s non-term-time (the closest...

#Poultry It’s been a poultry-filled few weeks. You may have twigged by now that I like my poultry. We have chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese here on the farm. We’ve had guinea fowl in the past but found these to be very fragile, not to mention noisy, so they’re no...

Christmas Markets France is currently awash with Christmas markets – Marchés de Noël. Nearly every village and town has theirs over a day or weekend in their Salle Polyvalente while the cities have month-long ones spread over a square or several streets. The north of France is most famous for...

Remember It’s Armistice Day, a public holiday in France. We always go down to the memorial service in Nouzerines. It doesn’t seem much of an ask to give up part of a morning to remember all those who died in the First World War. There wasn’t the biggest crowd, but...

We’ve been on several geocaching trips lately to interesting places. One of these was to the small village of Ladapeyre, which we pass through quite frequently as it’s on the way to Guéret, our nearest large town and nest of fonctionnaires. As with so many places in rural France, there...