Blog in France

It’s a bit of a non-Eastery Easter this year. It’s the middle of term here in Limousin so the kids only get Easter Monday off as holiday. Caiti is down in Bordeaux since her spring holiday doesn’t start for another five weeks! Both the boys are sick but Rors felt...

I mentioned that I’d signed up with Postcrossing.com recently. The site describes itself thus: ‘Send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person in the world.’ Well, as a random person I’ve been sending postcards, and receiving them. I’ve had  four this week and it’s been a...

Yesterday I had a work-related day out. I went to the Salon du Livre in Paris. It was a flying visit to the City of Light – there and back in a day. It was a bit of a palaver but doable. First off I drove for slightly over an...

A week or so ago we had a walk at Lac St Pardoux in Haute-Vienne, not very far from Limoges. This was to make the most of having to travel down to the city to collect assorted student childen. And needless to say, we threw in some geocaching. The first...

Like much of France, we’ve had more snow but a mere fraction of what fell on the north of the country. It’s probably Caití’s fault that we got any at all as she was desperate to see some snow. Down in tropical Bordeaux they don’t get the kind of winters...