Marché de nuit, Perigueux Centre Ville, Wednesday 10 August 2011 Wednesday 10 August 2011 – It’s a beautiful ‘hot August night’ and we head in to Perigueux for the infamous ‘Juillet et Aout Marché de Nuit’. I say “infamous” because for the last 2 weeks it’s been cancelled due to appalling weather here. In fact [...]
Day trip in the Dordogne – Today it’s lovely Montignac! It’s funny but when choosing which village or town to visit we obviously try to pick one we haven’t been to before. Montignac, like many of these ‘hidden-gems’ we discover on arrival, is in-fact somewhere we have been before, albeit, if only passing through. It’s [...]
New marketing push for French Tourism with http//int.rendezvousenfrance.com/en I received an email this morning from the on-line version of the Connexion Newspaper (ex-pat journal) with a link to an interesting article that struck a chord with me. From my previous posts you’ve probably realised that I’ve been having a bit of a battle with our [...]
Aubeterre is listed as one of ‘The Most Beautiful Villages in France‘. Probably the main attraction of Aubeterre is the monolithic and subterranean church of St Jean – carved out of the white rock with excavations going back to the fifth century, the inside is enormous with a ceiling height reaching up to 20 meters [...]
Trying to get registered with our ‘local Syndicate d’initiative’ I’ve put off doing this for too long now and so last year (June 2010) I resolved to ‘get with the programme’ and get La Treille Gites on the French Tourism radar. I started the ball rolling by getting our gites into the local tourist brochure [...]
Our Dordogne Gites have been taken-over by the glorious sunflower Wow, eight years we’ve waited for this and here they are, just look… La Treille is at it’s most beautiful! You’ll have to excuse me getting a little over excited but you have to be here to get the full impact that these beautiful flowers [...]
1er Festival Art et Eau sur les bords de l’Isle (Perigueux 1st Festival of Art and Water held on the banks of the River Isle) We attended the ‘opening ceremony’ of this new festival on Friday evening (24th June 2011) and were pretty impressed with the number of Périgourdins (people of Perigueux) who had ‘turned-up’ [...]
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it’s the 24th June already… what happened to Spring? Perhaps it’s because we delayed the opening of our gites this year until the last week in May, we’re just about to enter our 5th weeks rental with new guests arriving this weekend. Well, when I say ‘new’, [...]
A Visit to the annual Flower Festival in one of the prettiest villages in the Dordogne St Jean de Cole is listed as one of ‘The Most Beautiful Villages in France’ We finally made it… seven years it’s taken us to make the pilgrimage to this annual flower festival and WOW what a show!!! The [...]
The weather has finally picked up, pity we can’t say the same about our health. We’ve both managed to pick-up some kind of virus that starts of with flu like symptom’s and lingers for what I’ve heard could be weeks to come with symptoms ranging from nausea to earache. We’ve done the obligatory 3 day [...]
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