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What a night… 5 years we’ve lived here and I’m ashamed to say this is the first time we went to see this! We have certainly been missing out on one of the biggest events in Perigueux and I’m kicking myself for not going on the previous years. Me and Jeff both thoroughly enjoyed the [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Blown the budget with a new Hedge Trimmer
We have been umming a arhing over buying a new hedge trimmer… which brand, how much to spend or can the old one even be repaired? The old one to be fair was only about 40€ purchased from Auchan (local Hypermarket) in Perigueux. It’s only about 2 years old but has given up the ghost [...]
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Coutures: Vide-Grenier
Sunday morning and a couple of hours spent browsing around a local Vide-Grenier (car boot sale) seemed like a good idea today. The only trouble is we really need to ‘do one ourselves’ rather than looking at buying more ‘junk’! Do you know, we still have dozens of boxes of ’stuff’ unpacked in [...]
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Bordeaux – Fête du Vin & The River Festival
For an amazing experience come & stay at La Treille & visit the Bordeaux – Fête du Vin & The River Festival – Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th 2010 A major tourist attraction for wine lovers! Over 300,000 visitors are expected from all over the world to flock to the quayside’s and follow the 2km [...]
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Riberac – Market Day
The sun’s still out this morning so we decided to hit the market in Riberac. It’s infamous as the biggest market in the Dordogne. There are all sorts of merchandise on sale from exquisite jewelery that has been hand crafted by local artisans, cast iron garden furniture, local edible delicacies including fresh figs stuffed with [...]
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Saint-Aulaye
We’ve had lovely hot sunny weather for the last 10 days or so and it’s supposed to all be changing tomorrow so we made the most of it and headed off to Saint Aulaye this morning. Saint Aulaye is a pretty little village perched above the River Dronne about 34km west of La Treille.
The [...]
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