On the France This Way site I have a section about ‘what people drink in France‘ so that you too can sit in a French cafe with an authentic green drink, or know how to drink pastis. And a popular little section it is too - funny the things people look for on the internet.
One [...]
Well I’ve been home alone for a few days now, so I thought I’d better check the list that Mrs B left me, to make sure I have done everything I’m supposed to. Turns out I’ve done none of them, so I’d best make a start.
Top of the list, and bottom as well come to [...]
Well, 24 hours after Mrs B and the girls abandoned me I am still alive and kicking, and so is the cat, so things must be going OK. However, I’ve just had a bad experience that I thought I would share with you, so we can all learn to become better people together.
I have been [...]
OK two posts, one straight after the other. Has he got nothing better to do, I hear you asking. Well, yes, I need to go and clean the swimming pool and tidy up a bit of garden but this will only take 5 minutes of my time to write (and about 20 seconds of yours [...]
I’ve got a bee in my bonnet today, so you’ll have to bear with me while I get it out of my system. In my last post I suggested that not all gite guests were as perfect as they might be. Since then I have read an article by someone who used to run gites, [...]
Every year a lot of people stay in gites (holiday rental self-catering properties, for those who don’t know) in France. That’s good news for me of course because I’ve got two, and if they were empty all year I would be even poorer. Unfortunately most people prefer to pay more and come in August, rather [...]
Yesterday was Bastille Day in France. Perhaps a little like bonfire night in the UK, Bastille day is celebrated with fireworks, more or less in every town and village.
Even our own little town - about 2,500 people, including those from surrounding hamlets and farms - manages to have quite a good display in the rugby [...]
I have been away from the PC for a day or two because our electricity has been down, followed by a flaky internet connection. On Tuesday night an ENORMOUS storm passed over us, with winds to 140kmh. At least 5cm of rain fell, or rather blasted us horizontally, and it has taken some time to [...]
