14/02/2019 Happy Valentines Day. A drive to Limoges and I cannot resist our neighbours lambs!

Maximum temperature today 15C, minimum 4C.  Dry;  If the forecast is correct we have a week at least of sunshine 🌞 15km/h South-easterly winds with gusts up to 30 km/h. 

Taking the back roads to Limoges, the trees are mostly still bare.

Passing a lake near Rochechouart.

I just liked the view!

Arriving at Limoges. We do not visit unless we have to, we stick to the country!

Sunset at home.

The lambs in the small field on the other side of the fence from our Veggie garden...

These are the younger ones.

Full of bounce...

At the milk bar...

as above.

So very tired.

Common crane (Grus grus) returning to the North and migrating over France...

we are lucky enough to be living under their flight path...

and we have seen several thousand in the last few days.

I have updated my bird blog HERE.

04/03/2018 A trip to Limoges.

Maximum temperature today 11C, minimum 5C.   12mm of rain measured for yesterday and it is raining here again now; 15 km/h South Westerly winds with up to 41 km/h gusts.

Sorry, I am getting far behind with the diary as not many photos have been taken!!

Sunrise; a rare occasion for us, but we had a very early appointment at the hospital for Nigel.

As above.

Another very rare sighting for us living in the country, graffiti on a bridge wall.

A drive by shot of a fire engine.

Limoges Hospital.

Road works on the return trip.

Thermes de Chassenon; the site of Gallo Roman remains, well worth a visit if you are in the area, I have written about it here

Rochechouart Chateau.

Friends for dinner Friday night...

I made sushi snacks.

29/09/2017 Some of the photos from yesterday. Rain forecast for tomorrow so you may see the others then!

Maximum temperature 27C,  minimum 15C.  8 km/h NW wind with 18 km/h gusts. Dry.

I have been in the kitchen most of the day once more so it means I can catch up on yesterday's trip....

Not often do we see sunrise :-)

The usual road obstructions along the way.

We had a 30 minute drive to meet up with friends at Rochechouart.  This is the chateau and Town Hall car park where we met...

Rochechouart chateau.  This is one of my older photos as at the moment the chateau is in a restoration program and there is lots of scaffolding...

The courtyard inside though is a photo I took yesterday

Driving on to Solignac in the Haute-Vienne, I almost missed this drive by view of the city of Limoges in the distance.

Arrival in Solignac, the first thing to take my eye is this abbey. Founded in the 7th century by saint Éloi, the Abbaye Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul was destroyed and rebuilt several times.  It has masses of interesting history.

I could not resist this cat enjoying the sun in the car park in front of the abbey.  We had a 50 minute walk around the town and a quick sit down for a cup of coffee before moving on.

The main street is closed at the moment for major road works but you can walk along the pavements.  The hotel is on the left, and the front of the abbey in the centre...

Hotel Restaurant Le Saint Eloi.

The back of the abbey.

A few of the houses looking from up high on the road.

I loved this old barn.

For my American followers, I though you might be interested in this Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham driven by one of our friends.

A drive by shot, sorry about the windscreen tinting at the top of the photo, but I

liked the picture!

The church of Saint-Mathurin, in Le Vigen.

We were on our way to lunch and then a visit to the medieval ruins of Château de Châlucet. Watch this space for the remainder of the trip.

14/08/2017 Been out almost all day, photos taken from the car so lots of reflection in places! Back to nature tomorrow!

Maximum temperature 23C, minimum 15C.   5 km/h NE wind with 14 km/h gusts.  Dry.

I just love all the forest areas we drove through today.

Mortemart - We have decided that this is a place we will visit, lots of history and one of Frances most beautiful villages so it seems

If you have not heard about this place and its terrible story I have written about it here

Limoges in the distance, a town famous for its pottery amongst other things

Getting closer.

One of the largest university hospitals in the country I believe.

Winding roads and trees :-) looking for somewhere to buy a lunchtime snack, but all the ones we had previously looked up were closed!

Warning that further down the road is a tractor mowing the sides of the road.

On our way home we stopped at Leclerc in Saint Junien to shop.  Not my best idea, they are changing the whole shop around, so finding anything was very difficult in a shop that we do not use normally anyway!

Just look at all those trees :-)

Back in Chasseneuil this little shop sells leather-goods, haberdashery and gifts.

The shoe shop next door, see the shoe boxes piled up painted on the wall next to the yellow door.  (The latter was for Pam :-))