Fetes, Sunflowers and lots of Sunshine
We’ve been so busy recently with the gite, the children, our guests and working in the garden that it’s hard to keep up with all the fetes and fairs going on. Last Friday was the second of the two summer outdoor meals being held at the Bastion park at Lectoure, with lots of loud music, flamenco dancers, live bands and dancing well into the night.
Recent events include the annual fete at the nearby village of Tane also with music, dancing and a communal feast, and on 10th August was the final summer night market in Lectoure.
This weekend there were fetes in Tournecoup, Gondrin, Dune, Nogaro and St Antonin.
There will be a tuna & mussels fest coming up soon in St Clar on 20th August.
The weekend of the 22 & 23rd August there will be fetes at Castera Verduzan, Pauilhac, Miradoux, Castelnau d’Arbieu, St Puy, Barran and Lupiac.
Our sunflowers have started to wilt so it was time to judge the family’s who-can-grow-the-tallest- sunflower competition and the winner was our daughter with a lovely flower stretching well over 6 feet tall. All around us the melons are being harvested and the sunflowers are starting to wilt and dry out. The weather has been amazing this year and we’ve been enjoying temperatures well into the 30s all summer long.
The gite has been full since April and we have guests booked through until 31st October. Due to the really poor weather in the UK we received a flurry of enquiries at the beginning of August, but our summer months had already been taken from before Easter this year. If you are reading our gite blog and would like to stay at La Vieille Source during June, July or August 2010 then please think about reserving your summer holiday earlier in the year to make sure you get the dates you want. Cottages and gites with pools are always in higher demand during the summer months. We have an annual newletter that goes out just after New Year to act as a reminder, if you’d like to join our newsletter list please click here to email us your details.