A New Adventure in France

We’ve now had the chance to have a more leisurely look around the town that drew us here, away from the busy market day. Whilst it is very much a tourist magnet, it is also a town that seems alive with shops, facilities and schools. The town sits on the confluence of the Aveyron and… Continue reading Saint Antonin Noble Val

So if there was a sticker book for ‘Les plus beaux villages de France’ (and who knows, there may be one) we would certainly be ticking off a few of them. The weather is hotting up again with 37C again over the last two days. On Wednesday we headed off on the motorbike to explore… Continue reading Exploring in the Aveyron

My old Dad liked to fish. He was a fly fisherman and he used to tie his own flies on a little vice screwed to the kitchen table. He had a pair of green waders, which invariably leaked, but he used them to wade into the River Severn with his cane rod and fly-hook adorned… Continue reading Joe Blogs

On Saturday we packed up camp (in the dry which is always good) and travelled about 30 miles directly south from Saint Cirq Lapopie via Beauregard, Saint Projet, Caylus and the Bonnette river valley to our next destination – Saint Antonin Noble Val. We’re now on a different river – the Aveyron – and in… Continue reading Moving to the Aveyron River

On Wednesday it’s still warm and we headed out on the trusty (and now very dusty) bicycles to see a few local villages we’ve read about. The road follows the river through fields of sweetcorn and we stopped to look at the quiet hamlet of Saint Martin-Labouval before heading on to Cénevières. We passed by… Continue reading Local meanderings and geology lessons

The heatwave continues, as it does in the UK we hear, so it’s probably a good week to be next to a river where we can have a dip to cool down when we want. Joe has also used the cooler early morning hours to go out on his motorbike and ride some excellent nearby… Continue reading Towpaths and Tobacco

On Saturday we left the campsite at Cahors. We really enjoyed our time there and particularly enjoyed having the time to explore the town at a leisurely pace as well as using it as a base to travel further afield. We’ve moved east along the Lot river to a campsite on the river below the… Continue reading Moving on….

This has been our last week at the Cahors campsite, although we won’t be very far away when we move along the river. We wandered into town again for market day (where face masks are now obligatory rather than optional) and another vide-grenier/brocante in the centre of town. There seem to be a regular group… Continue reading Last few days in Cahors

We’ve joked in the past about having a donkey if we ever had land and the fact that you can apparently buy them for half the price of a ‘fashionable’ dog. When we were walking one day by the river we saw a family with a donkey and also saw one with some walkers on… Continue reading Travels with a donkey in the Lot

As we were going to spend some months in France, we thought we would try and get our ears better attuned to French before setting off and, with this in mind, we started to watch several of the Channel 4 ‘Walter Presents’ french language series. Two of the series we enjoyed featured a bearded detective… Continue reading Walter Presents – The case of the neglected courgettes