Category Archives: Local Events

All the latest info and inside news on our local Festivals (Fêtes), Car Boot Sales (Vide-Greniers) & Local Markets, (Marché & Marché nocturne – night markets).

Bordeaux Marche Noel 2009

By admin | Published: December 10, 2009

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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Autumn around La Treille Gites, Dordogne

By admin | Published: October 2, 2009

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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Circuit des Remparts, Angoulême

By admin | Published: September 21, 2009

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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Circuit des remparts, Angouleme

By admin | Published: August 2, 2009

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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Dordogne gites & Local Fêtes

By admin | Published: July 26, 2009

July has been a busy old time for all the villages, towns and cities in the Dordogne and around our little piece of heaven here at La Treille – I think we’re Fêted out and we’ve still got August to get through.
The weather has been glorious as normal for this time of year, unlike the [...]

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Fête de la Musique, Perigueux

By admin | Published: June 22, 2009

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 [...]

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Coutures: Vide-Grenier

By admin | Published: June 14, 2009

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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