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Well, here we are it’s the 1st of November already… where did the summer go?
We finally got back from our short break in Spain and although we had a lovely time staying with Jeff’s brother and visiting lots of amazing places, to be honest we were quite pleased to get back to our ‘home’ here [...]
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A re-newed passion for the Dordogne
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Autumn around La Treille Gites, Dordogne
It’s a busy old time around La Treille at the moment so I”ve done 2 posts in 1 here…
1 – Rambling around La Treille Gites in the glorious September sunshine -
It’s been an absolutely perfect summer and even now during late September the sun is out giving us temperatures in the mid twenties. It may [...]
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Vide Grenier at Tocane St Apre
Our first and last Vide Grenier (Car Boot Sale)
We’ve been living here at La Treille in the Dordogne for over 5 years now and still have many ‘un-packed’ boxes of ornaments and ‘who knows what” sitting in our barn. I’ve been threatening to do a ‘Vide Grenier’ now for about 2 years and clear out [...]
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Excellent feedback from our guests make it all worthwhile.
The last five years have seen many ups and downs since we moved to France and found our ‘dream property’ La Treille. Firstly we moved here with my parents but unfortunately it didn’t work-out with us all living and working together, they moved back to the UK after just 6 months… we should have [...]
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Biker friendly gites – Dordogne
If you love motorbikes and are looking to have a biking holiday in France have you considered the Dorodgne region?
About an 8 hour ride from the Ports at Calais etc you will be given a warm welcome when you arrive at your gite(s) at La Treille. We are ex-bikers ourselves and understand the ‘needs of [...]
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Dordogne gîtes and the Credit Crunch
Just a quick update to let you know that Jeff and I are still here – we haven’t disappeared of the face off the earth, we’ve just been busy arranging bookings for ‘last minute’ holiday makers!
I think most people in the world today have been affected by this credit crunch, including us here at La [...]
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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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Thursday 28th May
Getting the place ship shape ready for guests arrival on Saturday. Jobs to do are…
Mow lawns and do some major strimming.
Take photo’s of childrens toys for website.
Type-up electric box ‘fuse labels’ for gites 1 & 2.
Update ‘Welcome Notes’ for gites.
Call Gite Guru to help with new website.
Oh, and take Ruben [...]
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Is there going to be a storm today?
Woke this morning to the big news of the day… all the local weather forecasts are predicting an ‘Orage’ this afternoon and Meteo France were even giving out a ‘Red Alert’… mon dieu!!! Well, it’s 2.45pm now and it’s still 26ºC in the shade with blue skies. Will let you know if it happens tonight. [...]
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