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What to wear 🇬🇧
Posted in Humour, Life in France, Travel
Tagged Autumn Weather, Carcassonne, Clothes, everyday life, French lifestyle, Humour, JJ, Packing, South of France, travel, Turtle, What to Wear
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The week the air con went silent 🇬🇧
Posted in Weekly Journal
Tagged Autumn, Kidney Stone, memoir, rabbit stew, South of France, tongue in cheek, travel vaccinations, Weekly Recap
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Le Blues 🇫🇷
Posted in Life in France, Reflections & Mood
Tagged Autumn, Carcassonne, Daily life, Friendship, Life in France, retirement, South of France, the blues, travel plans, uncertainty
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Summer files a grievance 🇬🇧
Posted in Travel
Tagged Family, Humour, Mallorca, Restaurants, South of France, Spain, Summer 2026, weather
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Carcassonne 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Some cities get lucky. Carcassonne got strategic positioning. The result was two thousand years of invasions, crusades, and general unpleasantness—interrupted only by brief periods of prosperity and the occasional flying pig. Click here to find out more…
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Canal du Midi, Carcassonne, Cathars, Crusades, Fortified city, French castles, French history, Historical blog, History with a twist, Humorous history, Languedoc, Medieval architecture, Medieval history, Occitania, South of France, Travel France, UNESCO World Heritage, Viollet-le-Duc
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Canal du Midi 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Before the TGV, before the motorway, before even the steam engine, one obsessed Frenchman carved a 241-kilometre waterway through the south of France using nothing but a battered compass, 15,000 workers, and his entire family fortune. The Canal du Midi … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged * Canal du Midi, 17th century engineering, Boat trips, Canal travel, Carcassonne, Countryside, Cycling routes, French heritage, Nature, Occitanie, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Relaxation, Scenic routes, Sète, Slow travel, South of France, Toulouse, Travel photography, UNESCO World Heritage, Vineyards, Walking trails
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The great wine & Guinness experiment 🇫🇷🇬🇧
When your evening starts in France and ends in Dublin — without ever leaving town. Read more
The week wot was – 41/2025 🇬🇧🇫🇷
A sunny Indian Summer week in the South of France — good food, a Narbonne buffet adventure, upcoming travels, and the joys of proving I’m still alive. Lovely jubbly!
Posted in Weekly Journal
Tagged * Indian Summer, Autumn in the South, Bureaucracy Blues, Certificate of Life, Cockney in France, Del Boy Style, Everyday Humour, Food Lovers, French cuisine, Holiday Prep, Home Sweet Home, Les Grands Buffets, Lovely Jubbly, Narbonne, Overindulgence, Road Trip, South of France, Sunshine Life, Thanksgiving 2025, Travel planning, Visitors, Week 41 2025
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The week that was 32-2025 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Quiet… Too Quiet?A week of long lunches, firefighting planes, accidental website deletion, and mountain detours—because even “quiet” weeks in my world come with Bourbon temptations, Top Gun moments, and the occasional digital catastrophe.
Posted in Life in France, Personal Projects, Weekly Journal
Tagged Aerial Firefighting, Aude, Blogging Mishaps, Camon, Canadair, Forest Fires, Heatwave, Lac de Montbel, Montolieu, New Domain, Pool Days, Pyrenees, Road Trip, sauvageraie.com, South of France, Tramontane, Week in Review
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