Bonjour,
I hope you and yours are effectively.
It’s fairly quiet right here the place I’m in the course of nowhere rural France – effectively other than the various flea markets and festivals. However in July and August numerous outlets shut in order that employees can take their holidays, and surprisingly eating places and even accommodations shut too. Half of me, the French half, likes that household and “me” time means greater than getting cash. The opposite half of me, the British aspect, thinks they have to be completely bonkers to take day out within the busiest season of the yr.
The farmers in fact get no vacation as that is such a busy time for them and the roads are filled with tractors dragging bales of hay and towing trailer a great deal of grain. Some tractors are huge and fashionable like these of our neighbour Thierry who sinks all of his cash into time-saving tools as a result of he and his spouse and younger grandson do many of the work between them and have numerous land to cowl. Some households use the identical previous tractors they’ve had for a lot of a long time.
Claude Senior, recognized in these components for his cider-making abilities, drives a thin, very previous, rust lined tractor which pops and splutters like a cartoon clown automobile. Daily, because the village clock strikes twelve, he drives the tractor, misfiring and squealing previous our home as he goes to affix his son Claude Junior. who lives on the prime of our hill. The tractor returns at exactly 2 o’clock and by no means varies, I can set my watch by it. Nothing a lot strikes through the two-hour hiatus apart from chickens scouring the hedgerows and the labradoodle who lives reverse us and has a grudge towards everybody who isn’t his human – together with the foraging foul.
Subsequent week I’ll be in Champagne, cruising on the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, exploring Reims, Epernay and its well-known Avenue de Champagne which is 100 years previous this yr, Hautvillers the place French monk Dom Perignon is alleged to have ‘found’ the bubbles, and Meaux, well-known for its fromage, Brie – ‘the King of cheeses’ in France, and some extra locations. Include me by way of Instagram the place I’ll share a coupe de Champagne with you (if solely in pictures!)…
Wherever you might be – I want you a really bon and effervescent weekend from a sleepy nook of France.
Bisous,
Janine
Editor of The Good Life France Journal and web site
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Janine Marsh is Writer of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all out there as book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line. Her newest ebook be French – is a celebration of the French life-style and artwork de vivre.
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