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 close to the Canal du Midi offering Capestang’s visitors an option to visit Chateaus during…
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 world. Eva of ThatsHamori.com When you think of southern France…
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 being a ‘Homestay’ family is trying to adapt the lessons for the children’s own personal issues…
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 to cook and dance following simple instruction- these fabulous kids learn English. Many times, they…
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…
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 and took water from the hills to the city of Nimes. An extraordinary architectural undertaking, built with…
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 Capestang. With the fabulous weather ahead, we had a line on good used bikes from…
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 a one hour guided horseback ride through the hillside. Camille, the owner of Appaloosas,…
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 yellow summer kitchen, I have finished the painting. After years of the…
Pool The guys used a bobcat to take out the big trees from the front yard to make way of our pool and leveled the majority of the grounds. They dug the whole deep enough for a 20 cm concrete slab 6X4.5 metres wide that our 5X3.5 metre pool would sit on. Then went…