Monthly Archives: July 2020

It was meant to be a short walk followed by lunch and then, if we felt up to it, the rest of the walk. It didn’t happen like that. Firstly, the meteo told us it was going to be the … Continue reading →

Another lake, another swimmer.  But technically, this isn’t a lake or etang. It is a plan d’eau.  Plan d’eau is a catch all term for a stretch of water used for leisure activities such as the river Cele at Marcilhac.  … Continue reading →

Before we left the UK and retired to France my best friend and I decided to extend our regular lunch dates to include local places of interest that either neither of us or just one of us had visited.  I … Continue reading →

Maybe because I was born under the sign of pisces I love being beside the water be it river, lake or sea.  Having grown up under two hours away from family favourite beaches in the county that includes most of … Continue reading →

Marcilhac sur Cele was so pretty we were always going to go back. In the interim I did my much loved researching online to find out more about the Abbaye Saint Pierre.  Founded in the ninth century by Benedictine monks … Continue reading →

We didn’t go to Marcilhac sur Cele the next time. We did something completely different. When we first came to this area in the early 90s we discovered an unusual bar cum gallery in St Cere called Casino. Unbeknown to … Continue reading →

Well, the weather cheered up and so did I.  It is the fourteenth of July and a diminished parade has taken place in Paris although the patrouille de France did its colourful flypast comme d’hab. We have been out for … Continue reading →