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A-Tisket A-Taskat and Tea for Three
I’m still getting over the flu that I’ve shared with several MILLIONS of people in France this year. My recovery after 5 weeks is remarkably slow and annoying. Every time I think I’m better, I seem to have a mini … Continue reading
Posted in Country living, Flowers & gardens, Les Grouets, Loire Valley
Tagged city daily theme day, plunge router
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Monumental Churches in Charente Maritime – Villa Romana del Casale – Malbork Castle in Poland
My Weekly Blogger Round-Up hasn’t been very regular recently but I’m hoping things will start to return to normal soon. This week, it begins with a new blogger whom I discovered through Lou Messugo’s link-up last week. Susan from Our … Continue reading
The Secret Châteaux of the Loire Valley – Langeais, Villesavin, Montpoupon & Beauregard
First published in The Good Life France My top ten châteaux and castles in the Loire Valley are the four “Cs” – Chenonceau, Chambord, Cheverny and Chaumont – followed by the royal castles of Amboise and Blois, all of which … Continue reading
Posted in Loire Valley, Loire Valley châteaux, Restaurants
Tagged Beauregard, Langeais, Loire Valley châteaux, montpoupon, Villesavin
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The Truffle Fair
We’re up at the crack of dawn (well, for a Saturday anyway) to join Susan and Simon from Days on the Claise at our first truffle fair in Touraine, a couple of hours away. Not chocolate truffles, but the mythical … Continue reading
Weekly Blogger Round-Up – All About France with Lou Messugo
You are all familiar with Phoebe from Lou Messugo who lives in Nice and has often been featured in this weekly blogger round-up. Today, she is beginning a new monthly link-up focussing on posts about France from bloggers across the glob. I’ve contributed my post … Continue reading
Posted in France, French customs, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged blog posts about france, Lou Messugo
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A Mock-Up of the Little House
You may remember our poultry yard dilemma that got in the way of our project to renovate our “little house” to make a gîte (self-catering holiday rental accommodation). We thought we might have to drop the idea altogether. The next … Continue reading
Back Home in Blois to a Broken Weather Vane
We pick up our car at the long-term parking lot near Orly Airport at 10.30 pm after our flight back from Malaga and drive the two hours back to Blois with no mishaps. Closerie Falaiseau is safe and sound with no … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Closerie Falaiseau, Life in France, Renovation
Tagged repairing a weather vane
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Granada – Final Impressions and Suggestions – and maybe Cordoba
I somehow feel that Granada escaped me. I think there are two reasons: the fact that I was still recovering from a bad bout of flu and the unexpectedly cold weather. It seems to me that Spain is an outdoor … Continue reading
My Spanish Past
The first time I went to Granada was in the spring of 1976 when I was young and naive. I was living and working in Pau in the French Pyrenees and had befriended a woman called Anne Marie who ran … Continue reading
Posted in Spain, Travelling
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Sun and Snow in the Albaicin in Granada
Snow has been predicted but when we wake up, there is no sign of it. We walk up Cuesta Alhacaba, our double hill road, to Casa Pasteles on Plaza Larga for breakfast. There’s a market today – one clothes stand … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Food, Restaurants, Sightseeing, Spain
Tagged granada in the snow, visiting granada
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