We've been mostly lucky with the weather the last few days. Yesterday, being Saturday and market day, we started out with rain. Fortunately, it had all cleared up by late morning and turned into spectacular day.
Because this weekend is the big, national Telethon weekend, there are all kinds of activities in just about every village in France. I think this is a French version of the Jerry Lewis Telethon, with money going for muscular dystrophy and other neuro-muscular diseases, but I'm not 100% sure!
There are a lot of various charitable events that go on here throughout the year. For example, there was just a two-week long thing where people came to the door selling Brioche to fund research for mental illness. And, there are always raffles for local causes. Not to mention the fire department coming around to sell its calendar to fund their services. I should point out that our fire department is a volunteer department and NOT a professional department like in big cities.
All of these events mean that there are usually activities happening all over the place. We decided to go to a used book sale in Rouffiac on the way to Carcassonne. Well, as odd as it may seem, there appear to be TWO Rouffiacs in our department. We must have gone to the wrong one, because there was not a book to be seen.
Still, the day was so beautiful that we figured we'd go somewhere that we've been meaning to visit since February: Montolieu, the book village!
Montolieu is a very pretty village in the Montagnes Noir on the other side of Carcassonne. They have a large selection of used book stores, and we went to one that was quite large with a great choice of books. JM had brought along the books we'd planned to eventually sell if we opened our own used bookstore in Chalabre, which we've given up on for now. He traded those for some things he's been wanting to add to his collection. Then, we had a lovely walk through the village. I'm pleased to say that as nice as Montolieu was, we had no regrets of not choosing it for our home. Chalabre still remains number one in our hearts.
We drove back through Fanjeau, where we had looked for houses when we first came here last year. We always enjoy that drive because it reminds us of when we made the decision that this was the region for us. We stopped in Mirepoix to drop a painting off for re-framing and got to see some of their Telethon activities. I must say that Maggie was not amused, as we arrived during a demonstration by the fire department who appeared to have set something large on fire. It was loud, smelly and smoky; a combination guaranteed to create distress in the Border Collie population of the family.
Then, a quick trip to the SuperU for soap powder and a return home, capping off another great day in the Shire.
Ciao for now!
R
(see pictures on my personal site.)
Because this weekend is the big, national Telethon weekend, there are all kinds of activities in just about every village in France. I think this is a French version of the Jerry Lewis Telethon, with money going for muscular dystrophy and other neuro-muscular diseases, but I'm not 100% sure!
There are a lot of various charitable events that go on here throughout the year. For example, there was just a two-week long thing where people came to the door selling Brioche to fund research for mental illness. And, there are always raffles for local causes. Not to mention the fire department coming around to sell its calendar to fund their services. I should point out that our fire department is a volunteer department and NOT a professional department like in big cities.
All of these events mean that there are usually activities happening all over the place. We decided to go to a used book sale in Rouffiac on the way to Carcassonne. Well, as odd as it may seem, there appear to be TWO Rouffiacs in our department. We must have gone to the wrong one, because there was not a book to be seen.
Still, the day was so beautiful that we figured we'd go somewhere that we've been meaning to visit since February: Montolieu, the book village!
Montolieu is a very pretty village in the Montagnes Noir on the other side of Carcassonne. They have a large selection of used book stores, and we went to one that was quite large with a great choice of books. JM had brought along the books we'd planned to eventually sell if we opened our own used bookstore in Chalabre, which we've given up on for now. He traded those for some things he's been wanting to add to his collection. Then, we had a lovely walk through the village. I'm pleased to say that as nice as Montolieu was, we had no regrets of not choosing it for our home. Chalabre still remains number one in our hearts.
We drove back through Fanjeau, where we had looked for houses when we first came here last year. We always enjoy that drive because it reminds us of when we made the decision that this was the region for us. We stopped in Mirepoix to drop a painting off for re-framing and got to see some of their Telethon activities. I must say that Maggie was not amused, as we arrived during a demonstration by the fire department who appeared to have set something large on fire. It was loud, smelly and smoky; a combination guaranteed to create distress in the Border Collie population of the family.
Then, a quick trip to the SuperU for soap powder and a return home, capping off another great day in the Shire.
Ciao for now!
R
(see pictures on my personal site.)
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