Are you looking for a cycling route in France?
Finding a great (and often waymarked) cycle route in France is easy, if you know where too look. As we all know, cycling is big in France. You’ve heard of the Tour de France, right? The problem, of course, for non-French speakers, is finding this information in the first place, because naturally, it’s in French. […]
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Mandala Madness in Chalabre
Up until this winter, if asked, I’d say I don’t really crochet. I’d tried and failed – repeatedly. Even when inspired by some of the beautiful work of friends at mother and baby/toddler groups I went to while living in the UK, I’d pick up my hook, ready to tackle it once and for all, […]
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More Food Fresh from the Garden
With everything that’s happened this year, we haven’t been able to make as much of the garden as we would have liked. Really, we’d hoped to have finalised the purchase of our land by now and have had access over the summer – to set up “camp” and start to get some vegetable beds ready […]
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A 5-Year Reprieve
It’s been a while since I last posted here. After getting quite into the swing of writing blog posts on this and that, putting a lot of drafts together, even getting to the stage of having a plan, and working behind the scenes on a redesign of the site. Then life got in the way, […]
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Walking the Sentier des Plâtriers
We did this walk over a year ago. As the pics I took were with my camera it took me a while to get round to downloading them. Now that’s done, here’s the write up I said I would do in my Exploring on Foot post. If you’re looking for a short and relatively easy walk within […]
Continue ReadingA New Blog – and a New Post
Finally! I’ve managed to find time to set up this blog as a self-hosted WordPress site; a task that’s been on my to-do list more or less since I started it up on the free platform. You can find it here: https://www.aleapintothevoid.com I’ve been playing with the layout and the template and there will be […]
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He’s Off to Maternelle!
It happened all of a sudden, I suppose. One day we were settled into a routine of school with DD and creche with DS and cramming in something resembling paid work and everything else in between. The next day, that all turned on it’s head. He was off to maternelle! best laid plans My plan […]
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How to Swap your UK Driving License for a French Permis du Conduire
If you’re living in France and have been here more than six months, you’re legally obliged to swap your UK license for a French one. I’d say that’s a little known fact. Most people don’t bother and while I’ve heard that that’s not usually a problem (and not something the gendarmes pulled me up on […]
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La Fête de la Lumière
This is annual event put on by the MJC in Puivert – a celebration of the Winter solstice and the return of the light. This year it took place on the 19th December – a while ago now, which is why it’s beyond time to publish this post. I love that the French (at least, locally) […]
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