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I finally got around to downloading my iphone photos and here are some of the favourites.
Here is Sophie standing above Rocamodour. As you can see it looks amazing and it's only about half an hour away from here. Apparently, going back a few hundred years it was the most visited holy place in Europe behind Rome!
Here we are having a little picnic next to the Lot River one day on our way to Cahors. That's an old water mill you can see behind us.
This was on our first visit to Sarlat,....... Sophie has a real knack for striking a pose hey.
This was a week or so after we arrived, and one of our first outings to a French restaurant, still buzzing from the reality of actually being here, or was it the beer!
This was only a few metres from that same restuarant. It's a doggy do do pit. As you probably know dogs are treated very well over here. Like you can go to a restaurant and have your dog lie next to your table and that's all fine.
Our local village, Payrac, is pretty small, say a thousand people, but this grande building shown below is what they call the Hotel de Ville or Marie. It's like a town hall. It's where all the admin for the town gets done and where we for example acquired Sophie's meal tickets for her preschool. I was just really impressed by the look of this building considering how small Payrac is.
And here we are at "Moules and Frites" or in English "mussels and chips", an annual get together for the area around our hamlet. There was one other English speaking person there, a pom who had a French girlfriend in the village, nice guy, he still couldn't speak French, and that was after living in France for a few years. His girlfriend and he speak English at home, I'd say because she wanted to improve her English. You get that a bit here, which isn't good for our French language progression! There is Sophie in the foreground. Great afternoon.
No photo here, but a note I made last Monday... Sabina the owner, with her husband, of La Vallee, also drives the local school bus. And this morning after attaining the necessary paperwork she was able to catch the bus to school for the first time. It was a very average day, so we thought no she can catch it another day, but no she really wanted to catch the bus. We just made it. I drove her down to the pickup point, Sabina minutes later rolls up. With no hesitation she jumps on. You should have seen the eyes light up, and the big smile appear, on the little boy she sat next too. That was gold, it's those sorts of memories I will cherish. I'd say Sophie definitely has some fans at preschool.
A bientot et bonne santé
Jane, Sophie, Connor and me.
I finally got around to downloading my iphone photos and here are some of the favourites.
Here is Sophie standing above Rocamodour. As you can see it looks amazing and it's only about half an hour away from here. Apparently, going back a few hundred years it was the most visited holy place in Europe behind Rome!
Here we are having a little picnic next to the Lot River one day on our way to Cahors. That's an old water mill you can see behind us.
This was on our first visit to Sarlat,....... Sophie has a real knack for striking a pose hey.
This was a week or so after we arrived, and one of our first outings to a French restaurant, still buzzing from the reality of actually being here, or was it the beer!
This was only a few metres from that same restuarant. It's a doggy do do pit. As you probably know dogs are treated very well over here. Like you can go to a restaurant and have your dog lie next to your table and that's all fine.
Our local village, Payrac, is pretty small, say a thousand people, but this grande building shown below is what they call the Hotel de Ville or Marie. It's like a town hall. It's where all the admin for the town gets done and where we for example acquired Sophie's meal tickets for her preschool. I was just really impressed by the look of this building considering how small Payrac is.
And here we are at "Moules and Frites" or in English "mussels and chips", an annual get together for the area around our hamlet. There was one other English speaking person there, a pom who had a French girlfriend in the village, nice guy, he still couldn't speak French, and that was after living in France for a few years. His girlfriend and he speak English at home, I'd say because she wanted to improve her English. You get that a bit here, which isn't good for our French language progression! There is Sophie in the foreground. Great afternoon.
No photo here, but a note I made last Monday... Sabina the owner, with her husband, of La Vallee, also drives the local school bus. And this morning after attaining the necessary paperwork she was able to catch the bus to school for the first time. It was a very average day, so we thought no she can catch it another day, but no she really wanted to catch the bus. We just made it. I drove her down to the pickup point, Sabina minutes later rolls up. With no hesitation she jumps on. You should have seen the eyes light up, and the big smile appear, on the little boy she sat next too. That was gold, it's those sorts of memories I will cherish. I'd say Sophie definitely has some fans at preschool.
A bientot et bonne santé
Jane, Sophie, Connor and me.
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