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as from today From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1517 days old)
Chateau Bigorre is closed until mid december… more
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friday 16/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1518 days old)
Last day today and then we can close for a well earned break The last of our “guests” leave tomorrow morning. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re probably thinking I could never go and stay … more
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Thursday 15/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1519 days old)
Jean-Pierre our loyal retainer is talking about lagging the water pipes that we’ve had installed in the greenhouses for watering the cuttings and seedlings, he seems to think we’ll have a cold one thi… more
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wedneday 14/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1520 days old)
Three days to go About once a month a helicopter flies over the chateau and surrounding area, Jean-Pierre our loyal retainer tells me its doing an observation run on behalf of the departments tax… more
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Tuesday 13/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1521 days old)
Four days to go Its not the first time we’ve had an elderly British couple staying who’ve somehow managed to leave their room reeking of TCP, it lingers for hours and it isn’t even a nice smell. W… more
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Monday 12/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1522 days old)
Well, its funny how hunting season always starts on a Sunday, as usual for the first day of hunting we didn’t bag anything, we never have, the hunt has been going for nearly 200 years in this village … more
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sunday 10/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1524 days old)
As I have to be up at half past stupid o’clock tomorrow morning to prepare for the days hunting I thought that I’d post tomorrows post today, but I’ll use tomorrows date for todays post about tomorrow… more
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saturday 10/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1524 days old)
Spent yesterday morning out in the forest with Jean-Pierre clearing the ground and preparing the hides for the hunt, we finished off by collecting some cepes (large brown wild mushrooms also called bo… more
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Friday 09/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1525 days old)
She really is the “guest” from hell. This is the only time I’ve hidden from somebody in my own home, normally a two minute chat on how the day has been is enough, no not with this one, 35 minutes late… more
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Thursday 08/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1526 days old)
Hunting season starts on Sunday 11th and as usual we have all our rooms fully booked, well in advance, by a group of people from Toulouse, the guys are here purely for the hunting and the wives well t… more
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wednesday 07/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1527 days old)
Got a couple of women staying from Lesbania, they’re not the first, and probably not the last. Chatting over dinner and one of them was bragging about how wealthy she was and how they had staff to do… more
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Tuesday 06/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1528 days old)
They just shouldn’t be allowed out on their own. “Who’s that then” I hear you say. Americans !!, to be precise single american women of a certain age. We could tell that the one that we’ve got stay… more
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Monday 05/09/08 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1529 days old)
Count down to holidays. 10 Days to go, 10 days to go My (not very exiting) Sunday. After getting up at half past stupid o’clock yesterday to do breakfast for two couples at 6am as they had to get b… more
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Sunday 04/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1530 days old)
Turned out that our Psychiatrist was the monsieur and he’s retired, we also had another couple who’d booked in for the same few days who it turned out were friends of theirs, he is a retired dentist, … more
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Saturday 03/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1531 days old)
An update on my post Thursday 11/08/05 Seems after many years of writing letters and chasing paperwork around various departments Lou-Lou has finally got permission for his “home made honey” si… more
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Friday 02/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1532 days old)
Soon be hunting season again, they tend to leave it until tourist season is over as the locals aren’t too fussy about what/who they shoot, if it moves its considered fair game. This year there’s been… more
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Thursday 01/09/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1533 days old)
Fifteen days to go, fifteen days to go etc etc. (zzzzz) Really starting to feel tired now, its been 15-18 hour days every day since the beginning of May with no day off,(zzzzzz) although on the odd a… more
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Wednesday 31/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1534 days old)
Would you believe it !!! We’ve actually got a Psychiatrist and his wife coming in today, or is it a Psychiatrist and her husband, or…. are they both Doctors ???? I’m sure I can provide them with e… more
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Tuesday 30/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1535 days old)
French women, just an observation but at least they wear clothes that fit them, I’ve noticed my wife also, since we’ve been living in France for some time and her old UK wardrobe has worn out, even he… more
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Monday 29/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1536 days old)
Group bookings, what an absolute nightmare. When you first take the booking for five of your six rooms for two nights with evening meals, the first thing you think about is the money, we’ve done a f… more
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Sunday 28/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1537 days old)
“No alcohol tonight thank you” the guy in green said whilst I was pouring some local “eau de vie” for an aperitif “ I’ll have a beer instead” he says and then proceeded to order a bottle of Bordeaux r… more
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Saturday 27/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1538 days old)
I was in bigcity the other day buying amongst other things a length of plastic pipe, I was told by Jean-Pierre our loyal retainer to go to a particular supplier, when I got there it turns out that the… more
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Friday 26/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1539 days old)
I must admit I’m amazed by the amount of drugs and pills our French “guests” take, they seem to either have loads of shit wrong with them or they’ll all hypochondriacs, every morning the breakfast tab… more
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Thursday 25/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1540 days old)
They sell some strange stuff at the market in bigtown, I was down there the other day and there was this woman trying to sell me a dried sausage made with donkey meat !!. Tripe as well, the locals ar… more
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wednesday 24/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1541 days old)
“Yes we slept well thanks” said the old French couple in yellow, I thought carefully about asking whether his lion had slept as well as they did, because last night whilst I was waiting for some late … more
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Tuesday 23/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1542 days old)
One-nighters….. why don’t you just bog off and use hotels instead. Hotels are geared up to cope with you traveling from place to place one night here one night there, hotels have in their stocks hund… more
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Monday 22/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1543 days old)
Not long to go now 15th September and we can close.Looking forward to our holidays, going to have a couple of weeks here sleeping and doing a bit of outside maintenance then its three weeks in the Sey… more
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Sunday 21/08/05 #2 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1544 days old)
Well this is not what I came to the south of France for Snow in August, what’s that all about then. Yesterday was very cold, well, down to about 15 degrees here, more like a Scottish summer than t… more
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Sunday 21/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1544 days old)
“07:20 if its not raining and 08:30 if it is” came the response for my usual question of “what time would you like breakfast tomorrow morning ?” to the single woman staying in “yellow” (everybody els… more
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Saturday 20/08/05 From
enfrance
in Bed and Breakfast In France
(1545 days old)
The temperatures have been up in the mid thirties,as usual for this time of year although we’ve recently had a few showers so the grass has been growing nicely, I’ve spent the last couple of afternoo… more