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Back In Business With Berkshires and a B17 Bomber
I’m back. Due to this site being jackhammered again and so rendered out of action, poor old Blog in France had to take an enforced break. Mind you, it’s been so hot it’s been hard to muster up blogging...
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Eglise de Bussière St Georges: A Rare Glimpse into Bussière St Georges’ Church
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...
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Not Ghoulish But Gaulish: Fête Gauloise at Prébenoit
To celebrate the start of autumn and the return of the good weather, we had an outing today. I can never resist an opportunity to go the wonderful old Cistercian abbey at Prébenoit, 12.5 km from here,...
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Louis Philippe Furniture
The trouble with owning a gite is that you put so much time and effort into keeping that sparkling clean and in top notch condition that you run out of energy when it comes to your own home. It tends...
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Culan Castle, Viaducts and Child Restraints
We haven’t done a lot of geocaching this year, but have managed to fit in two nice geo-outings during the Christmas holidays. On Monday, having seen that storms were heading our way on Christmas Eve,...
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Getting High on New Year’s Day
We’d hoped to climb a volcano as an interesting way of seeing in the New Year but the weather conspired against us so we settled for a trip to the panoramic tower at Toulx St Croix. As it was we nearly...
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The Picturesque Parc des Parelles
The arrival of spring seems to have coincided with the beginning of the winter holidays (ie ski-fortnight for the well-to-do!) so we nipped out for a spot of geocaching this morning. We went to the...
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Villemonteix Castle – Some Of It Anyway…
So, les grandes vacances – the summer holidays – are here. And grandes is the word. Rors broke up on 4th July and he goes back to school on 3rd September! Two full months of no school. Pas mal. For us,...
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High Speed Holidays
These have to have been the fastest holidays ever. It really only seems like five minutes since we were collecting Caiti from Chateauroux station, but this evening I dropped her back there for her...
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A Bit Of A Do At Boussac Castle
A couple of weeks ago there was a ‘do’ at our local castle. (How cool is that – to have one of those!) Boussac Castle is a truly impressive building, and it was open to the public for an evening to...
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