Living in Brittany
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An account of our lives in Brittany where we have been living since 20 years running a gite complex and playing music in several local bands
tags: education, gites, holidays, music, travel
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I live near plestin les greves running a gite complex 2 minute drive to the beach or a 20 minute walk. I have a dutch wife and 3 boys at home who are at different stages in the education system ,2 at uni doing law the other one is doing a roofing apprentisage.
I play sax in several local bands classic music to jazz fanfares.
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Its May so must be a bank holiday
Posted on 09/05/2013
I don’t think I will ever get used to May in France there are so many bank holidays it starts off with workers day May 1st then the week later 8th of May ( I joke to...
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Splashing the cash
Posted on 01/04/2013
In the local paper “Le Tregor” at the beginning of the year they have an article on the finances of all the local cantons. Trebeurden was top of the debtors list with over 8...
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Bad weather bad connections
Posted on 17/03/2013
We had some snow last week quite a lot for Brittany and being so near the sea around 5 inches but it snowed continuous for 2 days making it interesting for driving. A few days...
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” Le Crunch “
Posted on 19/02/2013
Its that week of the year I get most enjoyment the France /England match being a rugby nut. I usually invite my mate Yves the local pharmacist who is equally a rugby nut,...
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The season of free lunches
Posted on 25/01/2013
Every week in January there seems to be a free lunch the first one was in Lannion when the “harmonie” played for the retired at Urseline hall around 700 were invited...
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I know its late……..but
Posted on 14/01/2013
Happy new year to my 2 followers of the blog…………. Its been a busy time over the Christmas period with all the family etc. The most interesting thing I did was...
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All change at the Lannion harmonie
Posted on 21/11/2012
The new chef at Lannion only lasted 10 months ( I’m not surprised I only attended one practice and stopped straight away ) the other players slowly saw through him and in...
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Making cider
Posted on 14/11/2012
We have quite a big orchard around 35 cider apple trees which we generally give away but this year was a bumper crop of apples we had 4 different groups of people picking apples...
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In praise of the AA
Posted on 16/10/2012
I’m not talking about the Alcoholics Anonymous but the Automoble Association. We had a client with a default on his car so he called the AA and since this year they have 2...
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