by Admin | Nov 20, 2011 | Live in France
Today I finally became part of our Local Communes ‘micro-économie fraternelle’ Yesterday afternoon Marie France, Madame La Maire of our little Commune of Gourville, called round to see me with some official looking pieces of paper. “Monsieur...
by Admin | Nov 20, 2011 | Châteaux, Driving in France, History, Holidays in France, Mountains and Valleys, Villages, Where to Go
Now, I thought I knew a lot about the Midi-Pyrénées region, especially the multitude of beautiful villages and places to see, but this one just flew right under the radar and I ‘found’ it totally by accident. I had just left another beautiful village, St...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2011 | Where to Go
The Lake, known as Le Lac de la Ganguise or also known as Le Lac de L’Estrade lies in the Aude department in the Languedoc Roussillon region almost midway between Villefranche de Lauragais and Castelnaudary and 2 kilometers from the village of Baraigne. The road...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2011 | Where to Go
We were looking for a place to go for the weekend, not too far, but nice and different, something in the country. That’s how we discovered Avallon and the Morvan area and only 2 hours on the motorway from Paris. We had no idea it was so beautiful. A modern town...
by Admin | Nov 18, 2011 | Food, Markets & Fairs, Villages, Where to Go
Grenade was founded as a bastide in 1290 and became one of the most important Cistercian abbeys in the South of France under Pierre Alafarici et Eustache de Beaumarchais. The name ‘Bastide” meaning new settlement, and are often named after foreign towns,...
