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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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Bourdeilles winter walk
Promenade around a beautiful village
It might be early winter here in the Dordogne but that doesn’t mean we have to hibernate. The local towns and villages are just as pretty as we may remember in the summer but they take on a different hue and are just as pleasant to visit in these cooler seasons.
Just [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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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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Visit to the Musée Trompe-l’œil, Perigueux
I’ve just been updating my last post ‘The Perigueux Walk’ and whilst researching information regarding a strange building near the River l’Isle (the Vieille Moulin) I came across an interesting website that mentions the Museum ‘Trompe-l’Oeil‘ (literal translation ‘to fool the eye’) in Perigueux. I believe it’s an art museum with a difference.
It sounds [...]
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