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Post by baybird on May 5, 2011 22:24:46 GMT
Hi Peter, I also have enjoyed looking at the picture's you have sent.  |
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Post by mpprh on May 6, 2011 16:51:19 GMT
Hmmm - Wrong part ordered , so still no AC ................ A few more pics ........... Carcassonne  Cassis  Causses (limestone plateau)  Cevennes   Cirque de Navacelle (geological large erosional landform - an incised meander)  L'espiguette (25km of isolated beach backed by dunes on the Western edge of the camargue)  Tell me when you get bored ! Peter |
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Post by mpprh on May 9, 2011 7:06:39 GMT
A few more ............... Cabanes on L'etang (lagoon) :  Tourist office, Florac  Glimpsed from the town  Gallargues le Montueux  River Gardon, summer  Grand Travers, sand dunes and beach  Grande Motte  From the sea, January  Peter |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 12, 2011 18:12:47 GMT
I love the photos Peter, especially the old buildings and little narrow streets like these:.   I have just fallen in love with a little French cottage with blue shutters. I've always wanted a house with blue shutters. Years ago I painted the window and door stones and top of the wall outside at the back of the house with that blue. Maybe it just makes me think of summer holidays. There's a whole town in Tunisia where everything is white and blue. With the sun shining on it the place looks beautiful. I've got my heart set on this little cottage with its blue shutters now.  |
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Post by mpprh on May 12, 2011 21:00:34 GMT
I love the photos Peter, especially the old buildings and little narrow streets like these:. I have just fallen in love with a little French cottage with blue shutters. I've always wanted a house with blue shutters. Years ago I painted the window and door stones and top of the wall outside at the back of the house with that blue. Maybe it just makes me think of summer holidays. There's a whole town in Tunisia where everything is white and blue. With the sun shining on it the place looks beautiful. I've got my heart set on this little cottage with its blue shutters now. Here is the Google Streetview pic maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=anduze&ie=UTF8&sll=44.053668,3.988144&sspn=0.005814,0.009645&rq=1&ev=zi&split=1&radius=0.29&hq=anduze&hnear=&ll=44.053992,3.987297&spn=0,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=44.05417,3.987344&panoid=qALXPtGnJRDruo10p7scaA&cbp=12,250.71,,0,-7.61 Also worth searching Anduze on google and selecting "images". It has a very small, but pretty medieval centre : maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.055904,3.983896&spn=0.012013,0.01929&t=k&z=16 Peter |
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Post by mpprh on May 15, 2011 8:22:40 GMT
A few more : Old quarry Junas (dates from Roman times and used for jazz concerts in summer. e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLIn3SslXHo )  Lac Salagou  Chateau de Lunas hotel restaurant  Traditional Camargue thatched cabin  Lavender field, Lunel  Scenes from Maguelonne    Peter |
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Post by mpprh on May 26, 2011 11:25:35 GMT
Just remembered this www.youtube.com/user/mpprh#p/a/u/0/DrpizomAOyMIt is a video clip of driving over the Millau Bridge. Driving from the North, this is our "nearly home" marker. Shortly after this the countryside changes from bleak mountains with the odd goat to dry valleys with vine and olives. Peter |
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Post by mpprh on May 26, 2011 17:26:06 GMT
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Post by baybird on May 27, 2011 22:42:31 GMT
Hi Peter, I enjoyed looking at photo's , and the movie's. that's some bridge you crossed over, and the bulls racing round the village.  |
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Post by coachman on May 27, 2011 23:11:09 GMT
What a beautiful place Peter, I am green with envy.
Both Willow and I have fallen in love with France and would love to retire there We had plans to sell our house in 2017? (The Government keep changing the retirement age) and retire to France so that we could enjoy the clement weather and the people.
Unfortunately, our house has (at the moment) suffered more than most from the decrease in house prices. We live in an area that is prominently Pakistani/Indian, this in itself does not reduce the house prices but some of our neighbouring houses have been sold to sons/daughters for as little as 20% of the price that ours was valued at just 6 years ago which dramatically affects the saleable price of housing in our street.
Things can change in the next 6 years but that is unlikely so we are possibly having to revert to plan B!!
Plan B involves retaining our house in the U.K. but after our mortgage is clear, renting a house in France for one, two or maybe three months of the year, preferably in the colder months as it will be cheaper!
I was a heavy smoker for most of my life and now, regret all that money that I have burnt. Unfortunately, despite not touching the weed for 4 years, I wonder what could have been if I had stopped sooner 
Perhaps we could call on your expertise Peter when we start to look for long-term renting? ;DIn the meantime, keep up the photos and running commentary of your life in France please, I will grit my teeth and carry on dreaming!
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Post by mpprh on May 28, 2011 6:29:24 GMT
Strangely, I gave up smoking 3 years ago. 40 per day for 40 years. It was tough, I put on loads of weight, and have been ill ever since ! I'm happy to help if you want to come to France. Renting first is a good idea and there are opportunities for long furnished lettings in winter (empty holiday homes). Actually, it can be quite chilly in winter. A wind from the north passes over the Massif Central and is cold but dry (it drops rain/snow in the mountains) bringing clear blue skies. Overnight temperatures go below zero a few times per year, but usually return to 15C during the morning. A nice winter day can be 20C allowing outdoor meals on South facing terraces. My area is marginal for oranges and some tender palm trees. A bad winter causes the trees to freeze and it takes a couple of years to recover. I am in a E-W valley so sheltered from both cold north and warm south winds. Over the hills behind us (about 4km) is the start of the coastal plain where it doesn't freeze and is cooler in summer but warmer in winter. Plants are advanced by a couple of weeks and the air is noticeably more humid. This is an early morning shot in a deep north facing valley up in the Cevennes mountains - and this was December 25th a couple of years ago -  Eating oysters, end November -  Peter |
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Post by mpprh on May 28, 2011 6:55:49 GMT
A pic taken from the apron at Beziers airport yesterday -  I do some work for them and was invited to meet the inaugural Flybe flight from Southampton to Beziers. The poor scheduling meant that it arrived at lunchtime, so the hard working journo's who turned up (including Jonathan Miller) only got snacks with their champagne. (New marketing strategy - reschedule flights or lay on early lunch to get better press coverage). I run a news service here : the-languedoc-page.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5275 which covers cheapie flights to this area. Peter |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Jun 16, 2011 9:54:06 GMT
You know the main thing that strikes me about that last batch of photos Peter, is that everything looks so clean. Then I look around here and it's so scruffy and depressing by comparison. It's making me long to be in France.
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck
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