Going to take you to a Magical Place .....................

Saint-Cirq Lapopie

is a a beautiful

place and one not to be missed!

Laury and I took the bus and then

walked across the bridge with breathtaking

views, making our way up to the village.

The village is perched on a cliff

100 m (330ft) above the river

and is a major beauty spot

of the Lot valley.

Magical and Breathtaking,

a spectacular mystical place!!

Saint-Cirq Lapopie has lots  to offer,

shops, walks, cafes and restaurants.

And I have more to show you!!

Enjoy!!

Birthday wishes to a lovely friend.........

To my wonderful friend
Leesa

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday,

hope you have a lovely day.

Love and Best Wishes

Anne and Arni xxx

Back on the road again... this time Villefranche de Rouergue

Jean, Laury and I took

a trip to this fabulous place.

You do need a car to get there

and Jean kindly drove.

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 Jean is a lovely

friend of Laury's who lives in Cadrieu.

She is not French nor American, she

is English and comes from Ipswich.

And spookily enough she used to

teach in the village where my

dad is buried and her granddaughter

works in the town where my youngest son lives!!!

On the way back we lost our way to

the carpark .. had a rough idea

but went down the wrong road.... we knew

where we had to head though, as I had taken

this photo from the carpark at the start of the trip !!

The little package I have been waiting for has arrived ..........

Back in October

I did a post for

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

which my friend Rosa

asked if I would like to take part

along with Bloggers in Italy and a few

other countries.

One of the ladies taking part ...

was JoAnne - Frutto della Passione..

JoAnne's post included a giveaway

of a $25 gift certificate to spend at

the Breast Cancer store, where

each item purchased generates funds for

for more free mammograms.

I was totally unaware of the certificate
but just left  a comment for JoAnne
about her great post
and  guess what?

I won the certificate. 
Could not believe it.!!

I had to go to the website and choose
a gift , which I can tell you took me a long
time, so many wonderful gifts on there, work out
how to pay and wait for the
 gift to come from America.

I knew this was the gift to choose
as soon as I saw the words
on the pendant...

the same as in my header!!

We can all make a difference

not only in October

but everyday!

Jack Frost has appeared ................

Makes you feel cold

just looking at the photos :-(

Happy Wedding Day to Wonderful friends .......................

Carolyn and Clive

They  are getting married
today (sunday 14th November @ 5pm)
in Australia where they live.

Wishing you both

all the best for

the future.

Hope you have a

fantastic Day ♥♥♥

Love from us all.

I was very fortunate to meet these
two wonderful people in Paris
April 2009.

XXX

Beautiful flowers ......

to say a big
Thank you

to you all.

Click on photo to enlarge

 

Blogging is becoming

hard to keep up with and

to keep going, you have

all helped.

I do have quite a few

more posts to do, all still

to do with France, will

be here soon.

I try to reply to all

of your wonderful comments,

but miss quite a few.

I also try to read your blogs too!!!

All my postcards are special..........

but this one is a

little bit

Xtra

special !

It was sent to me

by my cousin Valerie,

who I have had no

contact with until this

year since 1966!!

Facebook has its Pros and Cons,

This was a Pro :-)

I found a cousin and her daughter

 in South Africa, my second cousin

and his wife in Malta,

a second cousin in Denmark and 

 my cousin Valerie's grown up children,

who contacted her for me.

 To think that

Valerie and her family

have been living in

ITALY

all this time,

so close and we

never knew!

Thank you for the lovely card!

Hopefully see you soon xx

Bloggers meet up .. and wonderful goodies....

Back in September I wrote

about a lovely  lady named Diane

whose blog is called

My life in the Charante.

Diane splits her time between

Fance and the UK, until the

time that her husband can retire,

and the move will be permanant

What a shock and surprise

to find out that we live in the

same English Village.

And we met today!!!

Diane has a  very interesting story, so why not

have a read from the start!!

Look at the wonderful goodies

Diane brought for me..

An assortment of homemade confitures  and a ..........

http://lifeincharente.blogspot.com/search/label/Jams

Pumpkin from her garden...

http://lifeincharente.blogspot.com/2010/09/vegetable-garden-update.html

Great to meet you Diane and a big Thank you for the goodies.

Things are a little bit hectic for Diane at the moment, but

I am sure we will meet up again soon.