Friday, March 29, 2024
Blog Page 48
  Our first guests in the rental apartment! Akos and Angela from Budapest Hungary are here to celebrate her 43rd birthday! Angela is Alfonz’s cousin and they share a similar birthday, and with our recent move here, they decided to celebrate...
  Alfonz scouted the area looking for wineries for our Capestang wine tour. Daily, he jumped on his BMW motorbike, now a well known fixture throughout our village and searched for the ideal places to show tourists. Criteria was being...
  Blog Carnival - We gather 10 fellow bloggers, who write about their local sites, and here is our joint post. Please visit their links at the bottom of the page for other good reads and like adventurers from around the...
Summertime and the livin' is easy, work is abundant and our time is flying by. Alfonz and I are enjoying our new line of work, even though we literally fall into our beds at night. My favourite part of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EZcq9MRe0 Our Song & Play kids wrap up their first year. These kids amaze me. Most had a very limited understanding of English and over the course of the school year, through repeating nursery rhymes, singing songs, playing games and learning...
                                            Every year thousands of kids go on field trips with their elementary school to see the Parliament building in Budapest. The 100-year-old building was built on the Danube River, as a mark of the 3 cities, Buda, Pest and...
Pont du Gard is a very well preserved Roman aqueduct built in the 1st century AD. It is the highest at 160 feet and the most recognisable structure in southern France. 50km long, most of it is under ground...
Have you seen this kid riding his bike through the neighbourhood? Capestang has a new boy in town, one with a goal and a determination measured to none. Daniel received a second-hand bike from us when we first landed in...
There is something very special about swaying back and forth, side to side in a worn saddle, meandering through a cool forest on a hot summer's day.   We take our homestay students to visit a ranch and let them enjoy...
    Le Petit Platane Our little French rental apartment is up and running! After 2 coats of primer, plaster and sanding and 2 coats of matte Silver Sage paint and 2 coats of semi gloss Silver Sage paint to cover that darn...