Déviation

We took a detour on the way to La Valade this year to visit Chris' sister Karen at their beautiful house on the river Yonne.

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We stayed 5 days with Karen, Jacqui, Emily & Seth, Flora & Tim and had a fabulous time canoeing on the river and visiting the amazing 'Fabuloserie' a wierd and wonderful collection of art brut - check out the link below. We also spent Sunday morning at one of the largest ‘Brocante’ I have ever seen covering 6 kilometres of roads through the town Aillant sur Tholon.

Les cigognes blanches

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The white storks are always a beautiful sight at this time of year and a walk down the footpath at Saujon enabled us to see the stork on the nest feeding the young.

La Tremblade

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It has been a lovely week here, very warm and sunny but there has been no real rain for 3 months according to the locals so things are looking very dry. There has also been a ferocious wind this week which made cycling back from Talmont a real struggle. La Tremblade is always a favourite excursion and we enjoyed the oysters as you can see!

A culinary delight!

We have made the most of the sunshine and all the culinary opportunities. Fresh fish from the local market every day - sole from the estuary, mackerel, sardines, crab, and mussels. Let's not forget dessert and our latest discovery a tart of pistachio, ground almonds and apricot mmmm.....

From April 2011

From April 2011

Le Pré d'Are update

The weather has been amazing for our stay at Le Pré d'Are. There was hardly a cloud to be seen for 4 days. The bungalow and the garden are looking good in the sunshine. The rose tremiere is making progress and hopefully soon we will have a wall at the front!

From April 2011