With our friend Martin staying for the week progress is made on the Maison de Maître with electrics and a set of doors being opened for the first time in years – but mind your head!!
We take a visit to a beautiful French wine fair sampling the produce and soaking up the atmosphere with a superb French lunch 🐌🐌
We take a moment to enjoy this weeks Hoopoe bird watch with some amazing close up shots. And Nick gets up close and personal with some other birds!
Clare rolls out the ancient cart from one of the barns and gets started on the restoration works. If you do know anything about this kind of cart please do get in touch!
Trees are planted, lights start working, it’s a hive of activity but still with some enjoyment thrown in! With a visit to a local Cognac Museum and maybe just a small taste 😉 and how could you have cognac with out a visit to Cognac itself…🥃🥃
Leaps and bounds are made this week too in Clare’s shutter workshop and a few added improvements.
Just before Nick drives off on an epic journey. –
We close with of course wine of the week 😋😉🍷
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