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Summary of our house sit in Saint Perreux
Today ended our pet- and house sit in Saint Perreux. We spent yesterday preparing for our departure this morning. Packing and cleaning, and preparing a nice dinner for Teresa. She arrived by train in Redon where we picked her up at 20:15h. The three of us spent the rest of the evening dining in the…
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Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo
We left at 8:30h this morning and went en route for Mont Saint Michel. To be honest, I had never heard of the place before Christophe told me about it. He’s the one that researches the region where we are and has a list of things to do and places to visit. I just tag…
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Banking blues 6: the fat lady keeps very quiet while I could scream with frustration!
I am most definitely not amused and becoming increasingly frustrated, angry and feeling powerless. Why? I’ll tell you why. Because HSBC doesn’t do what they say they will do and it seems impossible to get through to them. Let me get you up to date since I last wrote about this: Still no email from…
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Visiting Rochefort en Terre; a surprising pleasure
It’s Sunday, the weather isn’t great and we’re up to no good. So we decide to go out this afternoon and visit a nearby village that could be interesting. It’s only 22 km, so if it isn’t interesting, we’ll be back home within the hour. As we drive there, it starts to rain a bit…
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Buying honey from a beekeeper, or why we need to stop the use of insecticides
Last Monday, as we drove through Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon on our way to the airport, we passed a sign that said there was honey to be bought there. We went to investigate on Wednesday morning, but it was only opened from 15 to 19 h. Today, we paid a visit in the afternoon. Rant about non-Dutch bicycles…
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Site seeing Vannes, Carnac and Quiberon
This is my first visit to Brittany. It’s Christophe’s second, and the first time is over 20 years ago. After a rainy Tuesday, today dawned dry and part sunny. Which was what the meteorologists had foreseen. They said it would rain in the afternoon, so we had decided yesterday that we would go site seeing…
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Banking blues 5: it ain’t over till the fat lady sings
Triodos Bank didn’t end our banking blues. On the contrary, they just added insult to injury. On May 15, we received a polite email from them with the following message: “Thank you for your recent application for a Triodos Bank account for Just Go Pink! LLP. Please accept our apologies for the delay in contacting…
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Pet sitting Munchkins in Saint Perreux
We left Durfort-Lacapelette yesterday morning at 9:45h, and arrived at Teresa’s place in Saint Perreux at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. By that time, it was raining, after a mostly sunny day on the road. Teresa welcomed us to her home and served us tea. We chatted some, and very soon, Munchkins joined the party.…
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Three heavenly days near Durfort-Lacapelette (France)
Wednesday, we drove from Barcelona to Durfort-Lacapelette mostly through the rain. We paid a very quick visit to Montserrat, but didn’t go in there, because of the cloudy weather. We didn’t feel it was worth the time and money to explore in such depressing weather. So we drove on. Even left Andorra for another time,…