This very inviting tea room and lunch venue in our closest village looks most inviting. We are scheduling a morning tea visit next week. Ce petit salon de thé qui est également ouvert à l’heure de midi dans notre village le plus proche semble bien sympathique. Nous allons le mettre sur le planning de la …
Category Archives: Villages
Postcard Summer 2020#21 – Mollans
This surprising wash house, built in 1849, with its Doric columns and fountain, is in the little village of Mollans in the Vosges. We discovered it when we stopped for a picnic lunch. The other two wash houses are in the same village. Tomorrow we will be back home in Blois. Ce lavoir surprenant, construit …
Covid Deconfinement Stage 2#1
Stage 2 of lockdown transition began in France today. It mainly means restaurants, bars and cafés can open (restricted to outdoor seating only in the Paris area), that there is no limitation to the distance we can travel and that school is now open at every level. Not all restaurants are ready though as certain …
Covid Deconfinement Stage 1#14
Life for us hasn’t really changed much since the first stage of lockdown end began apart from being able to cycle wherever we want. We are avoiding shops as much as we can and keeping to country roads and villages. Wearing a mask is hardly enticing! There was a new death in our area today …
Covid Deconfinement Stage 1#10 – Roses in Chédigny
We love roses and make sure we visit the delightful village of Chédigny, whose streets are literally lined with roses, at least once a year. We drove to Chenonceau and cycled from there to Chédigny, 20 km away. We were not disappointed. Here are my two favourites for this year. No new deaths in our …
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Lavardin in the early morning – Lavardin de bonne heure
I’m not an early riser but recently I had an interpretation at the notaire’s office in Montoire-sur-le-Loir at 9 am so found myself at sunrise in Lavardin. Je ne suis pas un lève-tôt mais grâce à une interprétation chez le notaire a Montoire-sur-le-Loir récemment qui commençait à 9 heures j’ai vu le soleil se lever …
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A House in Sologne – Une maison en Sologne
Montrésor Village
Romantic Roses – Roses romantiques
Wisteria in Chédigny – Glycine à Chédigny
The lovely of Chédigny is known for its roses but we thought we’d check out the wisteria on our way back from Chenonceau. We weren’t disappointed. Le joli petit village de Chédigny est connu pour ses rosiers mais on a pensé qu’il y aurait peut-être quelques glycines. Nous n’étions pas déçus.