On Sunday our friends cooked us a delicious Sunday lunch and then our two families went together to the beautiful seventeen hectare leisure site at St Clar. Set amongst rolling hills the five hectare lake is sectioned off into safe supervised swimming areas. Around the lake is a fine white sandy beach, and in every [...]
On Saturday the time had come once again for the end of year school concert. The school chooses a theme that runs throughout the childrens’ classwork, poems and songs over the school year. Last year the theme was films and this year the focus was on different countries of the world. The title of this [...]
It’s officially summer and our email inbox is merrily announcing “You’ve got E-Mail” with messages asking for dates for a week, or perhaps two, at our gite during July and August. The summer months are always our most popular time and are usually snapped up by Easter, so we always recommend booking as early as [...]
I was invited to lunch today by some French friends who live in the countryside near Lafrancaise in Tarn-et-Garonne. The weather was beautiful and we had a fine lunch outside in their garden. On my drive to their home I passed by an interesting looking town called Moissac, which sits on the north bank of the River [...]
Sunday 22nd June Fête des Pères (Father’s Day) with handmade cards, gifts and poems brought home from school. There was a thin slice of tree engraved with “Bonne Fête Papa” and a very original paperweight (large stone covered in brightly coloured small paper squares and glue). We also treated him to some new flip flops [...]
This weekend Castet Arrouy is “en fete” and the villages of Sainte-Mère & St Jean host a communal outdoor evening meal.Lectoure has a super Loto evening and at Astaffort there will be a brocante and vide grenier. For all you snail lovers I saw signs advertising an “Escargolade” at Brulhois. An escargolade is a snail feast, [...]
Another hot and sunny week so the municipal pool at Lectoure is busy each day. Our children love going there for the daily swim, part of the school curriculum, then they come home and get straight in the pool. They’ll be growing gills soon.
In June there’s something to do every weekend as well as the children going [...]
Another hot week for La Vieille Source. It’s been sunny and warm all week but by Thursday night it seemed to be warming up by the hour. At the school choral concert it was very humid with the children getting restless and the parents fanning themselves with their concert programmes.
We’ve been using the air conditioning at night, [...]
Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello, was born in humble surroundings in the town of Lectoure. He died in 1809, 200 years ago. As a “Maréchal d’Empire de Napoléon” the marie wanted to celebrate his life and mark the bicentenary of his death with several public events. Between 30th May and 1st June there’s been an official [...]