We’ve had a bit of a shift around of the furniture on our terrace this summer and if I’m honest I wish we’d done it years ago. Since buying the house we’ve had ‘Conversation-corner’ , which is made up of a couple of old iron cots, with old futon mattresses, throws and cushions, surrounded by…
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Fifi’s French Adventure Day 5…. All the way to Provence
Day 5 of our adventure driving Fifi our 49 year old 2CV from Devon to Provence and a spectacular day’s drive
Fifi’s French Adventure Day 4
After 12 days in the garage at Brantôme we’re back on the road again driving Fifi, our 49 year old 2CV to Provence
Back in Provence and a sensory massage
It would be fair to say that it has taken us a couple of days to settle down into life again in Provence after having spent 17 weeks in the UK (the longest time we’ve spent there since we bought our house here 4 years ago). Then there was the additional little spanner thrown into…
Fifi’s French Adventure Day 2 – Roscoff to The Sunflower fields
Rolling off the ferry at Roscoff yesterday morning was just lovely, it may have been a grey and slightly damp morning, but the roof was open and we were back in France and the adventure really was underway. We started by driving to Morlaix along The Corniche from Carantec, a road we knew well after…
Fifi’s French Adventure #Day 1
A little over 17 weeks ago Andy and I packed up the little house in Provence and headed back to the UK to be with the boys as COVID started to really take a grip and spread at a terrifying rate across the area. The last 4 months has seen us manage to redecorate the…
Fifi’s Colourful Life
Sometimes something happens that just makes us smile – that was certainly the case when someone commented on a Facebook Post about Fifi. As a result we now know so much about her rather colourful life over the last 49 years …. Effectively ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ for a 2CV!
The Pot of Gold at the end of The Rainbow
a photo of a rainbow pushes the grey clouds away
Le Luberon nous manque
When I first started learning French I found this turn of phrase perhaps the most difficult to get my head around. Of course we would say ‘I miss The Luberon’, but now I’m used to it, I rather like the direct translation ‘The Luberon misses me’ and it feels really nice to know that is…
Pottering in Provence #1
Missing The Vaucluse and watching any programmes we can find that mention Provence. Everything seems focused on Marseille and The Camargue, so we’ve started thinking about where we would go and what we would see instead
