Blog in France

This weekend sees the annual Journées Européennes du Patrimoine and on one of our recent bike rides, Chris and I saw a notice up outside the old church in nearby Bussière St Georges saying that it would be open to the public both days. Well, we’ve lived here seven years...

I’m a bit behind the times with this but I hadn’t seen or heard of them until today, and I regularly go into the post office in Boussac. Today, proudly on display, was this set of Tour de France stamps in a smart Perspex stand. The only set, because when...

It’s a bit of shame we chose the two hottest days for quite a while to take Caiti back to Bordeaux! But that’s life. We’d seen Rors onto the school bus on the first day of term so it was time to get Caiti packed off too. She was due...

We had a Dymo label maker way back in the late 1960s. Do you remember them? Those clunky hand-held embossers that churned out a thin strip of plastic tape with raised letters on? Me, my brother and sister thought ours was the bees knees and went about labelling everything, including each...

The French do have a wacky side, although they tend to keep it well hidden, on the whole. Here are two recent examples as proof for you cynics out there.   The 307 steps. I’m sure the competitors would have preferred 39! A week ago there was a Lighthouse Climbing...