I have sampled the service offered by the French National Health and I am quite impressed. After almost 5 months of back & leg pain with various diagnosis (UK & French), my doctor decided the only way forward left was an cortizoide injection into my spine. Read More
Fingers crossed it’ll be better than the last. It was going to be a fairly quiet time over the Christmas period chez nous, Read More
Has obviously never met me. I think I have definitely gone over the average quota here. So far in the space of a couple of months, my car’s died, the dryer stopped drying, my back improved only to be agrivated by a bus’s emergency stop in the UK, and now my latest emergency … Read More
It’s amazing what one man can do with pallets and some time on his hands… Read More
Whenever I fly back to the UK and then return to Rennes airport, I have this overwhelming urge to kiss the tarmac. Read More
Well we can’t complain, we’ve had a super Indian summer but all good things come to an end eventually and while the sun is still shining and the sky is a deep deep blue, there’s a nip in the air and a chill in the breeze now. Read More
On the 20th September, we decided to revisit a garden show held annually in a small town called Saffré. This is about a 20 minute drive south from us in the direction of Nantes. The show is held in the grounds of an old chateau which although is too far gone for complete restoration (just too expensive, I think), the town did restore the roof, made the building safe and is using the grounds as a park for the local inhabitants. Read More
Last Sunday (13th) after the obligatory car boot, we drove to a garden I’d long wanted to visit. Les jardins de Brocéliande are situated just south of Rennes and only about 40 minutes drive from us but somehow we hadn’t ventured there before. Read More
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Argentine Tango in Roche Bernard
Loire Atlantique is the place to be… for the Argentine Tango
Not the place that immediately comes to mind when thinking about a Tango but last Sunday together with some friends we went to a lovely bar in Roche Bernard and watched a local Argentine Tango club strut its stuff. Read More »