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Christmas Markets in the Dordogne, SW France
European Christmas markets are world famous and France boasts some of the best inlcuding our favourite in the Beautiful city of Bordeaux – just one and half hours drive from our lovely holiday cottages – La Treille Gites.
The Bordeaux Christmas Market or ‘Marche Noel’ is held every year and [...]
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Bordeaux Marche Noel 2009
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Circuit des Remparts, Angoulême
Ideal ‘long-weekend’ event for classic car enthusiasts in SW France!
If you are into street car racing or classic cars you would have loved today’s event… the streets of the ancient city of Angoulême were closed off to normal traffic today to allow hundreds of classic cars owners the chance to rev their engines, don their [...]
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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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Limeuil Village – A day out from our Dordogne Gites
It’s the 8th of September, our gites are still busy and the temperatures are still hitting an average of 30ºC this week. Our guests are making the most of their late summer holidays here in the Dordogne by relaxing around the pool so we decided to leave them to it and have a day out [...]
Chateau Puyguilhem & Go Karting
Things to do in the Dordogne for all the family
The title of this blog may seem a little strange… that is to say who would put a Chateau and Go-Karting in the same sentence?
Here’s the logic behind my madness… During the summer we have quite a number of families holidaying in our gites and we [...]
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Friday Market at Brantôme
Our Dordogne Gites are near to Brantôme!
The beautiful town of Brantôme is a ‘must see place’ during your stay at La Treille gites.
Starting from La Treille, following the River Dronne along the D78, it’s a leisurely, 25 minute scenic drive passing through the small picturesque villages of Lisle and Bourdeilles until you arrive in Brantôme.
Fondly [...]
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Circuit des remparts, Angouleme
This amazing event is held every year in Angouleme and this year should be pretty special as it’s the 70th Anniversary.
An absolute must for classic car racing enthusiasts – the streets in the centre of Angouleme are closed to normal traffic for the racing and the public can get up close and personal with all [...]
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Terrasson & Les Jardins de L’Imaginaire
Terrason -Lavilledieu – ‘The City of God’
Thursday 9th July 2009
Finally we made it to one of the many attractions that the Dordogne has to offer. The town of Terrasson sits abreast the River Vézère in the Perigord Noir region of the Dordogne. It is quaintly split into the old town, on the Southside of the [...]
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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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