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Month: August 2018

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Why 8-weeks isn’t enough – and blogging is back on

  • Emma
  • August 27, 2018
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  •  networks

Last year, as I wrote in an earlier post, I really struggled with the long 8-week summer holiday. This year? Well there was the four week buffer at the beginning, with DD at the Centre de Loisirs part time and DS at crèche, meaning just four weeks to fill – and also only four weeks […]

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A pohtograph of a large blue tunnel tent suurounded by tall coniferous trees

First Family Camp in the Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Emma
  • August 25, 2018
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  •  camping, languedoc, pyrenees orientales

It’s the summer holidays and we live somewhere breathtakingly beautiful. In the UK we were always off camping for the weekend, usually to Wales, sometimes to the Lakes. We would walk, rest, read, revive and restore ourselves. Then we had DD, then DS, and then we left the UK and moved to France. We were […]

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Riding the Voie Verte from Lavelanet to Mirepoix (Part 1)

  • Emma
  • August 16, 2018
  • 5 Comments
  •  chalabre, mirepoix, trailer rides, voie verte

Before the holidays, determined to make a better job of it than last year, I started putting together a list of microadventures we could have over the summer. One of the things high on that list was riding the voie verte that is closest to us here: the 38km trail from Lavelanet to Mirepoix. My […]

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Summer Holiday Survival Guide 2018

  • Emma
  • August 2, 2018
  • 2 Comments
  •  camping, Centre de Loisirs, juillet, les grandes vacances

So far so good. Since I last updated the blog the French long summer holiday, les grandes vacances, started and we’re now the best part of four weeks in. We learned a few lessons last year that set us in good stead for making a better job of it this year. Thanks to better planning […]

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