All is pretty quiet here at the moment. The holidaymakers are happy because the sunshine is back after a cold, wet day or two. I am happy because the holidaymakers are happy. One child is back to school and the other is about to go, after a summer that has of course whizzed by without [...]
OK first things first, what do you reckon to the new look for the blog? Sleek and sophisticated. I can’t decide whether I changed it for the better or simply for the sake of change. I like it, I’m just not sure whether the bubbly orange across the top will stay or go. I have [...]
Booking a gite or villa holiday in France (or anywhere else) can be a bit of a hit-or-miss affair, so I thought I’d offer a few practical suggestions on making sure you book the perfect holiday for yourself in the future. Sorry I forgot to write this sooner as promised. And I often use the [...]
Well, happily or unhappily I didn’t do my ‘big challenge’ with the cyclists this morning. Seems there was a mix up over dates, and the event is next Sunday. Fingers crossed for storms, then.
Instead I just went with the usual crowd, but I can’t say it was a rest and relaxation morning - 80 km [...]
We’ve had a bit of a French time of it recently, lots of Peter Mayle moments, which is always good. Yesterday we went to a French neighbours house for a grand outdoor buffet with lots of good people, food and wine; today the local hunt boss came round with a man with a gun to [...]
Over at francethisway I have some sections that are more interesting to do, and some less so. My personal favourite section (and one of the favourites with visitors to the site) is the one about wildlife in France.
We don’t have an enormous amount of detail about each animal - there are better scientific and [...]
One of the funny things about living in remote places in foreign countries is that important (and trivial) news items can pass us by without a murmur. We get the Economist delivered every week, so usually know about the major world events, but always seem to be eating dinner when the TV news is on.
Anyway, [...]
Well Mrs B and the children made it home safely and all is back to normal.
They were a bit annoyed with the cross-channel ferry company, who let them on-board in England at midnight and then turfed them out of bed and off the boat at 4.00 am. They had imagined that because they had been [...]
Now I’m not a big shopper as a whole - in fact I find the whole shopping experience pretty unpleasant - which I suppose has the advantage that I don’t cost much to keep, and the disadvantage that I’m always a bit scruffy.
Well last night all that changed. For the first time in my life [...]
Another month over, and visitor numbers to this blog are still increasing, so I thought I’d take a look at what the visitors are looking for, and whether they are finding it when they get here.
I get statistics for lots of things, including the phrases that visitors typed into google in order to find us. [...]
