Brantome The Dromme River runs through the town, right past our hotel, the Chabron. The double French windows on our second floor room open onto tiny balconies where we can lean out for the view and the fresh air. Across the river a monastery stands, with part of it built into the limestone cliff opposite,… Continue reading The Venice of Perigord?
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Celles sur Belle
Ghost City By lunchtime we are south of Niort and north of Angouleme, and don’t recognize anything in between, so we stop for lunch at a little town just off the main road called Celles sur Belle. Clean, light colored stone buildings line cobbled streets, and a few trees stand behind walls brightened with the… Continue reading Celles sur Belle
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Brantome, Dordogne, June 7, 2007, Hotel Chabarron The Journey Crossing the Channel, Disembarkment We rolled onto the “Bretagne”, a Brittany Ferry which leaves from Portsmouth to cross the channel to St. Malo ,at 7:45 PM, and by 8:00 we were in the ship’s sit-down restaurant , Les Abers, sipping a cold glass of Macon… Continue reading Back to Tourrettes
Homey, Cosy ?Cozy Baking
In the week since my return to Shere, I’ve made 2 batches of cookies; Carrot-Raisin Oatmeal, and Milk Chocolate Chip; a double recipe of Irish Tea Bread, and 4 loaves of sourdough Mill Bread. The cookies went straight to Catherine, Matthew, and Louis, the children of Bernard’s daughter Carolyn and her Yankee husband Mark. One… Continue reading Homey, Cosy ?Cozy Baking
Dinner Party
We had our first one hundred-percent Shere-ite dinner party on Saturday. Eight people were invited, and all of them said yes. They even seemed pleased to be asked. My first friend here, the thin dog-walker, arrived, looking elegant in wide black trousers and a full-sleeved wrap around blouse, accompanied by my soon-to-be painting pal, the … Continue reading Dinner Party