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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
Saint-Claud Music and art
fest Chris Pearson and
his gang are doing it
again. The second
international Festival of Music
and Art will take place in
Saint-Claud on the long
weekend of July 19–22. So if
you kicked yourself last time
for missing some of the best
talent to be collected in one
place in France, make a note
of the dates, lay out your
gladrags and you could even
polish up the tent.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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The rustic life isn’t
always idyllic, but
a new club might
help.
The Farm Women’s Club en
France is the latest
offshoot of the highly
successful Charente-
Limousine Exchange, an
organisation founded in 2003
to help newcomers to France.
Celia Lougher, responsible
for the group, has lived in
France for 14 years and is
emphatic: “Many of the
women who come to our
meetings are quite young and
have children. They often
experience extreme isolation
when they arrive in France.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
At Entente Internationale,
the Civray-based Anglo-
French social association
boasting over 300 members,
founding president Philip
Sleigh presided over the
election of five new officers
including his own successor.
The new president, Dave
Blake , is a long-term resident
of France and a journalist for
French News.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
If you worry about your kids
not getting enough exercise,
or if they haven’t had to
opportunity to try more than a
couple of sports – or can’t
make up their minds which
they prefer, the conseil général
of Vienne has a solution.
Throughout July and August,
the Caravane des Sports will
be travelling around the
département, bringing sports
equipment and qualified
physical education instructors.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
Few rural edifices are more
depressing than those
concrete water towers, dating
from just after WWII, which
stand khaki sentinel over so
many French villages. Most of
them have passed their sell-by
date, most are in poor repair,
many have had more than one
leakage repair. In French, they
are châteaux d’eau –
castles of water.
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