tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735299611917880752024-03-18T23:09:13.148-07:00Normandy LifeMaggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.comBlogger731125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-8503547217352475782020-05-10T07:46:00.003-07:002020-05-24T06:38:06.463-07:00Au revoir Normandy<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Although I haven't posted here for a while in the years that went before I loved being a part of the blogging community and making new friends around the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">So, I wanted to let anyone, who might have stopped by wondering what was new in Normandy, know that this will be NL's last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">No more tales of country life or beach walks or la vie quotidienne en France, now it's time to say goodbye to our beautiful home as we turn the page and begin a new chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">To use all the well worn phrases that one hears so often in the "media" the last twelve months have been a journey; a rollercoaster; of ups and downs and twists and turns but now we have finally returned to the land of our birth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Merry Old England has opened her arms wide and welcomed us to a wonderful new home in the picturesque Derbyshire Dales.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">To chronicle our new way of life I'm starting a new blog: <b>"<a href="https://hazelbarn.blogspot.com/">turning the page</a>"</b> which I hope will be up and running this week, it would be lovely if you stopped by for a visit if you get the chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Linking this post to the legendary meme <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/2020/05/mosaic-monday-79-three-years-in-montana.html">Mosaic Monday</a></span></b> hosted by Angie @ Letting Go of the Bay Leaf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">My New Blog can be found <a href="https://hazelbarn.blogspot.com/">here</a></span><br />
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Yesterday evening we drove into The Old Town for dinner at Rex a restaurant which has been serving wonderful food since 1932.</div>
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After dinner we strolled along the narrow cobbled streets soaking up the atmosphere.</div>
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Linking to Mosaic Monday. @ Letting Go of the Bayleaf</div>
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-75419938316856471652018-12-22T04:11:00.001-08:002018-12-23T23:12:42.458-08:00Merry Christmas from Normandy.After a few weeks of neglecting the NL blog I've popped back on to wish all my friends and followers in blogland, especially the special ones who've shared the MM journey with me<br />
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Wreaths on the front doors began the Advent season.</div>
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Logs stacked by the wood burning stove made sure we stayed cosy and warm</div>
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(Baby It's Cold Outside!).</div>
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Old Saint Nicholas came bearing gifts on December 5th.</div>
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The Salvation Army began singing carols.</div>
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Last month we celebrated a special birthday by surprising my sister with a family trip to Disneyland Paris.</div>
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Colonial Williamsburg characters carolling on the first Sunday in Advent.</div>
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A pair of rose gold sequinned Minnie Mouse ears is the only decoration this tree required!</div>
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Gotta love Olaf, do you wanna build a snowman?</div>
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Our time at Disneyland Paris was a wonderful occasion to celebrate and a great way of getting close family together for a pre Christmas treat.<br />
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All the "girls" chose a set of Mouse Ears to accessorise their outfit, as a lark I popped mine on the Christmas tree for a Whatsapp silly photo before getting down to the serious job of decorating it.<br />
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-33803800251690523232018-11-04T06:31:00.000-08:002018-11-04T06:38:26.731-08:00This Old House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today's post was prompted
by<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>a question from a recent visitor who
was intrigued to know if our home had any stories to tell. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we purchased the house over 20 years ago the
seller didn’t really have very much to tell us about it's past.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b04800;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Over the years I've done the occasional internet search but have yet to find anything relating to the house. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b04800;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I did discover in the Rumsey Historical online map collection "The Carte de France 1750"</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b04800;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">which was published by four generations of the Cassini family from 1750 to 1815, it consists of 185 separate pages joined together to form a physical map measuring 39 feet by 38 feet. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b04800;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">By zooming in and looking closely I found St Marcouf with a drawing of a church!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All we really </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">know is that it is a former
Presbytere, it's origins date back to circa 1600 and through the ages</span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> a<span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> succession of priests from the Church of St Marcouf du Rochy have lived here.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The floor of one<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> bedroom in the original part of the building has a handmade terracotta tile floor and we were told that the Bishop of Bayeux slept there whenever his travels brought him this way.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">W</span></span><span style="line-height: 17.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">hilst renovating that room we discovered the numbers "1787" chiselled into the stonework surround of the ancient doorway which leads to the newer 18th c part of the house.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have over the years made some enquiries into the origins/history of the house and heard from<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> one elderly lady who remembered that during WWII the village children were gathered together for safety and slept on makeshift beds in “la chambre ancient avec le </span><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #212121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">sol en terre cuite ancienne" - the bedroom with the old terracotta floor. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We've also been told that</span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #212121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> the house was occupied by Germans soldiers for a period of time and indeed it is well documented that during </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #212121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">the weeks following D Day there was much fighting in the area as the Allies pushed inland, from the landing beaches, towards St Lo.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One mystery we have yet to solve is why there is an unmarked grave in the garden? We discovered the base and cross, overgrown with brambles and weeds, whilst clearing flower beds when we first moved here but no-one has been able to tell us who is buried there. One neighbour suggested we excavate the site but we decided to leave whoever is buried there to rest in peace.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Perhaps it was the final resting place of our resident ghost ? </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #212121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That's right, we believe that the house is haunted and know when he’s around because we can smell the smoke from his cigarette. </span><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #212121; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Several visitors have been aware of his unseen presence but everyone agrees that he’s a friendly ghost. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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In 2011 I took part in a Room By Room meme that was great fun, click on the link below to see a little bit about how we brought love and life back to This Old House.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="FR" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I so wish that walls could talk, I would love to hear it's stories.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-6857387212727878712018-10-27T23:17:00.000-07:002018-10-28T00:31:12.949-07:00Mosaic Monday # 107 - at this time of yearAs October draws to a close and with November just around the corner I'm sharing a couple of my favourite things which happen in our little corner of Normandy at this time of year.<br />
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Trick or Treat - our neighbours children, taxied around by their patient parents, haunt <span style="font-family: inherit;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">village</span> as </span>twilight falls. It's become a tradition to make their visit to le Presbytere the first stop of the evening but they only approach if we leave an outside light burning otherwise they leave us alone. </div>
We always leave a light burning!<br />
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Halloween 2007 we were celebrating my Father's 80th birthday when they came to visit so we donned costumes to greet them. As they left <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">o </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">go a' haunting </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">one</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the loca</span></span>l kids took our nephew Nicholas then aged 7 by the hand, to his relief we rescued him before they managed to whisk him away.<br />
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The nearby town of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.52px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trévières holds it's annual <a href="http://www.trevieres.eu/ville/evenements/fete-de-la-pomme-du-terroir/">Fete des Pommes</a> on the last Sunday in October it's an event we always look forward to especially this year as there is going to be a performance by a group of Breton dancers and I adore traditional Breton music, the pipes and drums have my feet tapping in no time at all.</span></span><br />
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As part of an ad hoc flotilla of boats, all carrying passengers with just one thought in common "will we see whales and dolphins" we tacked from side to side trying to spot some of those wonderful elusive animals.<br />
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Suddenly there they were, a pod of about eleven short-finned pilot whales, swimming alongside us. They swim up to the surface usually in the mornings to rest in the warm shallower water after spending the night time feeding down in the depths.<br />
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It is thought that there are around 1000 short-finned pilot whales frequenting the water off the South coast of Tenerife.<br />
Their dorsal fins are unique, like human fingerprints, no two will ever be the same. They stayed nearby for quite a while before swimming off for more close encounters with the other yachts and catamarans out that morning.<br />
As we sailed further along the coast our Captain suddenly spotted a large shape far in the distance and tried to get us up close. However another boat crossed in front of us and ruined our chances of photographing a migrating 25 metre long fin whale, a truly rare sight in these waters according to our Captain.<br />
I took this photograph below of an illustration of a fin whale featured in a Blue Jack brochure which I found below deck.<br />
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After an adventurous morning we slowly motored back into port passing in front of our hotel on the way. The mountains behind are quite hazy but the two sides of the hotel can be easily seen. Family suites on the right and adults only on the left.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, Plan B
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My scheduled
post which I wrote whilst we were away went up on Sunday morning as planned, as
did the link for you all to join in with, which was good because our internet service had still not been restored by the time we got back from Tenerife. </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for all
your supportive comments, I can’t deny that it was quite challenging to get all
the ducks lined up in a row from afar!</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, you’ve
probably realised that I didn’t stop by your blog last week to comment on your
mosaics and that was because the problem is ongoing.</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are still
without internet service in the house, I’m using my iPhone’s personal hotspot
for this post, and unless a techie comes to fix the problem soon I possibly
won’t be visiting you this week either.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although I will always want to participate in MM I’m wondering if there might be one of you, who
enjoys our MM Club as much as I do, who would be willing to take the baton from
me and become the new host so that we can keep this long standing meme running
for many more years to come?</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Of course I'm hoping that will not be the case and I’ll be able to write a fuller post but if you're reading these words you'll know that this is Plan B.<br />
A striking feature of the landscape here in Tenerife is of course Mount Tiede. We had hoped to take an excursion to the National Park to get a closeup view of Tiede but have been unable to find a tour which was reasonable in both hours spent touring (9 hours is too long for me to be sitting on a bus which seats 50) and price (private tour with personal guide for just the two of us was too expensive at €430).<br />
At the beginning of the week we did go whale and dolphin watching but I’m saving that tale until I can blog properly again.<br />
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Here's a peek…………………………..<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #005000; font-family: inherit;">I wonder if you also saw it whilst MM blog hopping? If not just follow the link above.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #005000; font-family: inherit;">I was quite taken by this project so trawled through my massive pile of photos to come up with a tribute to Normandy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #005000; font-family: inherit;">Of course once I started playing with the postcard idea I had to send you one from the seaside.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #005000; font-family: inherit;">M'selle Fleur did consider going in for a swim with her new friend last week but decided getting her paws wet was enough to be going on with.</span><br />
<span style="color: #005000; font-family: inherit;">Talking about beaches...…………….. </span><br />
<span style="color: #005000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Senior Partner are heading off tomorrow to find us some sunshine again, this time to Tenerife in the Canary islands staying at the Royal Hideaway Corales Beach Hotel in Costa Adeje.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">It is our first visit and w<span style="color: #005000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e're looking forward to experiencing the island with a ride up to the summit of Mount Tiede in a cable car or possibly taking a boat trip and hopefully encountering dolphins and whales.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Grabbing my iPhone I ran (walked steadily) down three flights of stairs to see who it was.<br />
Surprise, surprise.<br />
Remember the heifer that jumped the fence two weeks ago to munch on our lawn?<br />
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Well, she was back.<br />
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A little while later "the Farmer" and his cowman arrived to assess the situation.<br />
A walk of the perimeter revealed just one place where she could have jumped the fence this time and the decision was taken to return her to the field via the same route.<br />
She didn't want to leave as you can see in the mosaic below.<br />
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Meanwhile her herd mates took notes.<br />
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What to do with grapes, I asked myself. Grape jam/jelly came the answer from bbcgoodfood.com<br />
I had a packet of jam making sugar in the pantry so thought I'd give it a try, cooked the grapes as directed and drained the juice. Grape juice, sugar and lemon juice boiled together until setting point reached.<br />
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Well, that didn't work.<br />
The result could best be described as a very sweet grape coulis.<br />
Here's a link to the recipe.<br />
<a href="https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7606/grape-jelly">grape jelly</a><br />
Let me know if it works for you!<br />
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Next I made a tarte tatin using those lovely looking red apples and a <a href="https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tarte-tatin">recipe</a> from Raymond Blanc.<br />
The end result didn't look very much like the photograph on the website but it did taste good served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.<br />
Not to be defeated I tweaked an apple crumble recipe that appeared on my FB page one morning, using walnuts in place of pecans and baking the mixture in several small dishes instead of one large one.<br />
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My thinking being that I could freeze some of them for another time instead of having to throw half of a large one away because, after all, we are only two people with normal appetites and the dog won't eat sweets.<br />
As with the tart tatin it wasn't a pretty pudding but it was edible.<br />
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Thinking about it later I decided that it was probably the dark muscovado sugar that turned both desserts such a dark, unappetising colour.<br />
My final attempt at using up the apples was a success!<br />
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If only I'd thought to turn all the apples into apple sauce I could have saved myself an awful lot of time and effort.<br />
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I did think twice about blogging my less than perfect culinary concoctions this week but one thing I do know is that even though not everything in life turns out the way we would like it to it doesn't mean that we can't have fun in the process!
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-82908275440616488832018-09-02T01:36:00.000-07:002018-09-02T01:36:20.648-07:00Mosaic Monday # 99 - bucolic NormandyAccording to the Meteo Autumn officially began on September 1st and certainly here in Normandy we are beginning to notice some changes.<br />
Although the weather is still dry there is a definite chill in the air in the early mornings and quite often there's fragrant wood smoke on the breeze as folk start to light cosy log fires and wood burning stoves in the evening.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I went to make a cup of tea one afternoon recently I got quite a shock when I looked out of the window and saw a cow happily munching away on the lawn that last year replaced my vegetable garden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier in the day the farmer who's cows graze the fields surrounding our home had transferred some to another field and apparently after they left this one decided to go walkabout. The SP drove up to the farm to let him know that we had an escapee in the garden and he swiftly arrived with a couple of helpers to escort the heifer back to where she belonged.</span></span></div>
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Our generous neighbour called round on Thursday afternoon bringing with him masses of juicy red grapes from the vines in his garden. </div>
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As a thank you I gave him a jar of the plum and preserved lemon chutney which I'd made the previous week.</div>
Trying to explain to a non English speaking Frenchman just what chutney is was extremely difficult.<br />
"You can eat it with cheese," I said. "Quoi?" he replied.<br />
"It's good with curries", I said. "Quoi?" was again the response.<br />
"Cuisine Indienne" I replied. "Je n'aime pas le curry" he stated!<br />
At this point the SP interjected with the suggestion that he buy some English cheddar cheese at the supermarche and make a sandwich!<br />
You can imagine how well that suggestion was received.<br />
The GN (generous neighbour) then asked if I wanted any apples this year and no sooner had I said "Oui" he promptly drove back across the lane to his house, returning with a very big bag of them.<br />
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This time I had a better "swap" to barter with - a large bottle of pommeau, an apple aperitif, produced by a farmer friend of ours.<br />
"C'est pommeau Normand?" the GN inquired, "M<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ais oui, bien sûr" was my reply, no further explanation was required!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Keats once said...……………..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, </span></span></div>
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Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Conspiring with him how to load and bless </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; </span></span></div>
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August is the month when he picks the plums and a few days ago the Senior Partner returned from a walk with M'selle F with a box containing some of this year's harvest.<br />
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This is the second year that we've been lucky enough to share his garden's bounty, last year I made several jars of plum jam.<br />
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This year I got busy in the kitchen and turned them into plum and preserved lemon chutney, plum compote and a delicious pudding of plum crumble.<br />
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Here's a link to the <a href="https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/plum-preserved-lemon-chutney">BBC good food website</a> where you'll find the recipe for the chutney.<br />
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Like most chutneys the flavours will deepen and mature with time if you can hold off eating it that is!<br />
We were in a hurry to try it so I served some chutney and a <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">cooling mint and cucumber raita </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">as condiments to</span> the </span>chicken curry which the SP made for dinner earlier this week.<br />
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A favourite "afters" from my childhood, plum crumble and custard is also a comforting "once in a blue moon" grown up dessert too.<br />
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What's your favourite dessert? Do you still hanker after a childhood favourite or do you have a more sophisticated palate?<br />
I'd love to hear what delights your taste buds and satisfies your sweet tooth, I'm thinking that chocolate/ice cream will be involved for quite a few!<br />
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-9884508434424897382018-08-19T02:00:00.001-07:002018-08-19T02:00:31.132-07:00Mosaic Monday # 97 - Chateau de Terre Neuve in the Vendee.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During our trip to the Dordogne and the Vendee in June we heard about the privately owned Chateau de Terre Neuve, open to visitors at certain times of the year and so decided to make a small detour to see if we could take a tour.<br />
Classed as an Historical Monument of France the Chateau is situated on the outskirts of the town of Fontenay-le-Comte, a town once described by the Renaissance king Francois 1st as "the fountain and source of beautiful minds".<br />
We were in luck as we were the only people visiting that morning and so had the services of the tour guide all to ourselves.<br />
An plaque above the entrance is engraved with a verse written by Nicolas Rapin.<br />
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Winds, blow at all seasons</div>
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Sweet air upon this house</div>
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That neither fever nor plague</div>
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Nor the evils of excess.</div>
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Desire, quarrel or trial</div>
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Should trouble those that live here.</div>
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Here's a five minute potted history of the Chateau.<br />
The architect Jean Morrison was commissioned in the late 1590's <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">to construct an imposing residence for</span> the poet Nicolas Rapin. </span><br />
A true Renaissance man Rapin wrote <span style="font-family: inherit;">poems<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> in Greek and Latin as well as French.</span></span><br />
H<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">e</span> was also, amongst many other things, a magistrate; a soldier; high provost of the constabulary of France and a companion to Henry IV on campaigns during the French Wars of Religion.<br />
At Arques in 1589 against Charles of Lorraine and again at Ivry, Normandy against the Duc de Mayenne in 1590.<br />
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Nicolas Rapin was the father of nine children none of whom survived him so sadly when he died in 1608 the Chateau fell into neglect before being bought by Lazarite missionaries.<br />
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In the early 19th century the Chateau was purchased by the Comte de Vasse, mayor of Fontenay-le-Comte and deputy of the Vendee.<br />
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His descendant, the artist Octave de Rochbrune, dedicated over 50 years to the transformation of the Chateau adding magnificent architectural and sculptural details and filling the interiors with museum quality furniture, paintings and objects.<br />
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Some of these were acquired from the Chateau de Chambord which is still to this day a jewel in the crown of the Loire Valley.<br />
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Octave's daughter Elisabeth married Count Raoul de Fontenioux in 1877 and their descendants continue to reside in the Chateau lovingly maintaining it for future generations to enjoy.<br />
Of course the Chateau is a also a home and so all though we were able to visit the private rooms downstairs taking photos wasn't allowed.<br />
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However, I was able to photograph some of the other rooms of the Chateau, also in the Museum space above the gift shop and of course the Chateau's exterior.<br />
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During the Terre Neuve Festival in June this year the Chateau played host to 5 open air theatre performances, you can see the stage being built in this photo.<br />
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16778709902157945708noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273529961191788075.post-7972682104494864152018-08-12T01:05:00.001-07:002018-08-13T02:03:53.647-07:00Mosaic Monday # 96 - life latelyTwo weeks ago the temperature in Normandy reached a blistering 30*C (98*F) making it the hottest summer that we've experienced here since we arrived in 1996.<br />
The lawns are scorched and my hydrangeas wilt a little bit more every day.<br />
Although I've not read anything regarding a hosepipe ban in Calvados this year there was one in place in 2017, my garden pot plants are surviving on waste water from the kitchen sink.<br />
To top it all off M'selle Fleur got a bad case of the "itchy scratchies" a,k,a heat rash.<br />
Usually the Senior Partner would use the hosepipe/shampoo in the garden method to relieve her itches with the foreseeable result of all three of us getting drenched and hot and bothered at the same time.<br />
This year instead we called upon the services of the Mobile Toilettage lady.<br />
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M'selle F was not best pleased but it was far less stressful for us. Unfortunately the itchiness doesn't seem any better but she sure smells nice!<br />
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Yesterday I took this photo of the cows in the field next door, looks like summer just might be over now.<br />
You may have noticed that after 2 years I've tweaked Mosaic Monday's opening hours to fit better with my schedule and hopefully yours too.<br />
We're open now from Sunday 11.00 a.m. to Monday 11.00 p.m. French time.<br />
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Feeling slightly nostalgic I took a little look back at the previous 94 MM posts (ninety four!) and totally enjoyed revisiting the past 24 months. Time really does fly when you're having fun.<br />
BTW, if I've written 94 MM posts that could mean that you have too!<br />
One thing I quickly realised was that I blog quite a bit about food, travel, family, travel, Normandy and a bit more travel!<br />
I picked a few out at random to share with you today, if you'd like to read the original post just click the highlighted link.<br />
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<a href="https://normandylife.blogspot.com/2016/09/mosaic-monday-9-autumn-in-garden.html">Autumn in the garden</a><br />
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Every summer I always enjoy the boost that the Summer Snap Challenge hosted by Sue & Alison @ UK Scrappers gives to my photography and scrap booking mojo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in a jar; drain cover; steeple.</td></tr>
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Here's the 2018 summer challenge list if you feel inclined to join in<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">1 <strike>your new avatar</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
2 <strike>a drain cover</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
3 <strike>spire or steeple</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
4 windmill</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
5 soft top</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
6 a crescent</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
7 <strike>whiskers</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
8 <strike>in a jar</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
9 tessellations</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
10 bags</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
11 naughty but nice</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
12 <strike>a rose</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
13 <strike>in the air</strike></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
14 entrance</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
15 match</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
16 stamp</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
17 cornet</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
18 four candles</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
19 the letter 'O'</span></span><br />
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20 <strike>crooked</strike></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in the air; new avatar; red, white & blue</td></tr>
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C wedding</span></span><br />
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Bonjour, I've had such a lazy week since our last chat.<br />
Sitting out of the sun in the shade of a spreading chestnut tree on an oh so comfortable Lafuma lounger snoozing and reading books on my Kindle. **<br />
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The one and only time I left home during the past 7 days was for a quick trip to the supermarche for essential supplies.<br />
I blame the heat.<br />
Work in the garden has mainly been just watering plants in the cool early mornings or late in the evening as the bats begin their nightly hunt for food, and I did prune some roses one once or twice.<br />
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The blue/pink hydrangea is looking rather splendid this year, don't you think?<br />
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So pretty that I decided to feature it as my blog header for the rest of the summer.<br />
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Once upon a time I used to have a potager and would toil daily amongst the courgettes, lettuces, beans and tomatoes. Now I only have a small herb bed and a few golden raspberry canes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to tend to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, how's your summer going?</span><br />
Are you out and about enjoying fun activities with family and friends, tending your garden or maybe you have animals and pets to care for.<br />
Just between us - I always hankered after keeping a couple of donkeys in the back garden.<br />
I knew in my heart that it was never going to happen.<br />
Still it might have been nice.<br />
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** Completed summer reading list so far**</div>
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Bring Me Back - B A Paris</div>
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Seven Bridges - L J Ross</div>
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The Distance - Sue Folbigg</div>
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman</div>
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The Second Child - Caroline Bond</div>
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Together - Julie Cohen</div>
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Redeemer - Mark Dawson</div>
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**Still on my Kindle to read**</div>
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The History of Bees - Maja Lunde</div>
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A Piece Of The World - Christina Baker Kline</div>
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France's National Day 2018 fell on a Saturday, a day when even non sports fans such as myself were glued to the TV watching a blistering semi final match between Nadal and Djokovic @ Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.<br />
Spoiler alert: Djokovic triumphed!<br />
The total amount of prize money this year is a staggering £34 million with the tournament Champions each receiving £2,250,000.<br />
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Nadal and Djokovic were swiftly followed onto Centre Court by Serena Williams who was beaten by Angelique Kerber in the Ladies Singles final which frustratingly clashed with coverage of the World Cup playoff for third and fourth place between England & Belgium, in Saint Petersburg. Russia.<br />
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And let's not forget the Tour de France happening at the same time!<br />
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quirky definition: unusual in an attractive and interesting way</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">an ancient wrought iron door knocker, how many hands have held this through the centuries?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another hand made piece of door furniture that has stood the test of time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">how I wish these rusted and corroded metal shutters had been open!</td></tr>
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If you enjoy travelling especially from an armchair and love meandering through France well you might want to grab a beverage, get comfy and settle down, you could be here for quite a while.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The road we travelled last week wound its way through several <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">regions of France which were new to us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the previous day we had driven down to the Pays de la Loire region of France to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">stay </span>overnight at t<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">he <a href="http://manoirdumoulin.com/">Manoir du Moulin</a>, in the small town of Sainte Hermine in the Vendee. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking at the pretty garden through <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the breakfast room windows whilst enjoying our petite dejeuner was a lovely start to the day.</span></span></span></span><br />
On our way to <span style="font-family: inherit;">our next destination, Maison Asholi in the tiny hamlet of Bouteilles Saint Sebastian over in the Dordogne, we stopped off in the pretty town of Fontenay le Comte to visit the Chateau Terre Neuve. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a wonderful tour of the Chateau. Our guide, Eve, was delightful and took great pride in telling us about it's history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Later that afternoon we arrived at Maison Asholi and received a warm welcome from our B & B host, Beverley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just look at our pretty bedroom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we sat outside basking in the glorious sunshine and admiring the garden Beverley brought out a birthday cake that she had baked specially for me, complete with candles!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I<span style="font-family: inherit;">n the evening the SP took me to dinner at "a table" a quirky restaurant @ La Lumiere B & B owned and operated by two English women in the nearby hamlet of La Guide. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The restaurant is small, it seats just 36 diners in two downstairs rooms of what once was an ancient French farmhouse and</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has a usp I've not encountered before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dinner is by reservation only, there is no menu (although they do have a short wine list), and all the tables are served at the same time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A<span style="font-family: inherit;">s each course is dispatched from the tiny kitchen it is delivered to the table by a server along with a short description of the dish.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6 courses over 3 hours, quite an experience and one that made this birthday a birthday to remember.</span><br />
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In the early 1980's the Senior Partner's career took us to Bavaria, West Germany, we lived there for over 13 years. </div>
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Our home overlooked Starnberger See (Lake Starnberg) and it was whilst I was living there that I came to learn a little of the history of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, (1837-1898).</div>
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"Sissi" was the daughter of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Maximilian_Joseph_in_Bavaria">Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria</a>, wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph_I_of_Austria"> Emperor Franz Joseph I </a>of Austria and half sister to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria">King Ludvig I </a>of Bavaria.<br />
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As a child Sissi enjoyed spending time with other family members by Lake Starnberg at their summer residence Possenhofen Castle, situated in the pretty lake shore village of the same name.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria">Sissi's</a> adult life was not as pleasant.</div>
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Her marriage to Franz Joseph was not a happy one, overshadowed as it was by her domineering mother in law who also happened to be her aunt, the Archduchess Sophie (of Bavaria).</div>
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The suicide/murder of her son and heir, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his mistress at his hunting lodge, Mayerling, in 1889 was a tragedy from which she never recovered.</div>
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Elisabeth fled Austria and travelled to the island of Corfu, a place she had visited often during her extended travels and a sanctuary from life at court in Vienna, Austria.<br />
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After purchasing a large villa<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">in the village of Gastouri</span> </span>and later also the land surrounding it down as far as the coast she instructed the Italian architect, Raffaele Caritto to design a palace in the Pompeian style. </div>
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Building began in 1889 and took two years to complete.<br />
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As a great admirer of Achilles, a hero of Greek mythology, Elisabeth named the palace Achilleion and had several statues of him installed in the house and throughout the grounds.</div>
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She visited Achilleion twice each year until she was murdered in 1898 in Geneva.</div>
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The palace remained closed until it was sold in 1907 by her daughter, Maria Valeria, to Kaiser Wilhelm II.</div>
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<a href="http://www.achillion-corfu.gr/default_en.html">Achilleion Palace </a>is now a Museum operated by the Greek Tourist Organization and we were able to tour both it and the extensive gardens during our recent stay in Corfu.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I so enjoyed learning more about the Empress Elisabeth and seeing her most favourite home but was saddened to discover that her visits were cut short when her life ended so tragically at the hands of an assassin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a lighter note to finish, some movie trivia for you to enjoy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The teenage German actress Romy Schneider starred in a trilogy of movies entitled "Sissi" (1955, 1956 & 1957) playing the role of Elisabeth. The three films were later condensed into one version </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055994/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Forever My Love" </a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and dubbed into English.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1968 Omar Sharif played the leading role of Crown Prince Rudolph in a movie based on the Mayerling Incident. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scenes from the 1981 James Bond movie <a href="https://jamesbondlocations.blogspot.com/2012/03/corfu-casino-achilleion-palace-corfu.html">"For Your Eyes Only" </a>were filmed in the Casino on the upper storey of Achilleion.</span></div>
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