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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) The random musings of a Tyke in France!

English - France, Loire Valley, Holidays
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 2W ago

Well, well, well….

Here we are, Sunday the 6th May, 2012 and France has voted in a new president. I suppose M. Sarkozy should have seen this one coming a mile away. Never the most popular man among the electorate, he’s systematically shown himself to be arrogant, conceited and perhaps a little power-crazy. He...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1M ago

Where’s the pride, Angleterre?

Twice a year I visit the UK to see my family that still live there, in the town I was born, raised, grew up in and started my working life in. Twice a year I get to note the differences between ‘home’ and home. Twice a year I get back ‘home’ with these differences gnawing [.....
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 4M ago

Happy New Year.

First of all, let me wish you all a Bonne Année. Pleine de bonne choses pour vous et votre famille. I suppose I’d better re-cap last year before moving on to a whole new one? Well, we had a great season, stuffed full of lovely people that came and spent a while (or longer) here [...]
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 8M ago

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

As the title says, it HAS been a while. It’s been a long, very busy summer for us here at Le Chant. Great weather, great guests (in the main), and lots of nice people have booked to return. That’s the upside. The downside is that we have had one or two ‘guests’ that seemed no...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

Loire Experience Photography Workshop. Sept 24th-Oct 1st, 2011.

I’ve often thought, as I wander the highways & byways of our bit of France, what a beautiful landscape we live in. Because I’m a very enthusiastic photographer, I look at the scenery in awe sometimes, and wish that others could see it just as I’ve just seen it, you know? This t...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

Xynthia – One Year On.

On the 28th February, 2010 Tempête Xynthia left a trail of death, devastation and destruction in its wake, coming in from the Atlantic, and forcing its way inland through much of France, Portugal and Spain, up into Belgium, the UK and Germany. In almost all of the countries other than France, the te...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

What a palaver!

Well, where to start? I s’pose at the very beginning? That’s a very good place to start….. Many of you reading this will be aware of the shitty time we’ve had of late with one thing and another? It’s mainly been the lack of internet and phones that’s completely ha...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,600 times in 201...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

Alice and I have parted ways…..

For the better part of the summer, our internet connection has been hit & miss with AliceADSL, who are now Free, but used to be Tiscali, who were part of Italia Telecom. Each evening, we’d lose connection at around 9pm, and then it’d be intermittent at best, non-existant at worst until the follo...
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A Slice of Ex-Pat(é) · 1Y ago

There Bee a Problem!

This one’s taken a while to get around to writing, but I did promise guests who were here at the time that I would put finger to keyboard about it sooner or later. As is usual, sooner became later than usual! If you see what I mean? Still, in the grip of a cold spell, [...]
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