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Category Archives: Bicycling in the Dordogne
Sure signs of summer
It truly feels as if summer has arrived. With a vengeance. Suddenly, everything that has been soaked by rain is starting to dry out. The level of the Céou River is dropping. Afternoon temperatures are now regularly in the 30s … Continue reading
VTT comes to the GDA
Can you say VTT? Presuming that your first language is English, you’re probably sounding out the letters as “vee tee tee,” and you don’t have any idea what they could stand for. If your first language is French, you would … Continue reading
‘Tis the season, and other tidbits
To every thing, as they say, there is a season. We are now officially in Aperol Spritz season, with the temperature (as recorded in my car this afternoon) sailing past the 30-degree barrier. In Fahrenheit terms, that’s into the mid-90s. … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Flora and fauna, Life in southwest France, Weather in the Dordogne
Tagged Aperol, hot weather, plants, trees, vacation, weather, winter
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We call it mellow yellow
Since green is my favourite colour, spring is my favourite season. Yesterday morning was sunny and beautiful, so we went for a long bike ride through the countryside. Along the way, I spent some time watching the countless hawks that … Continue reading
Bike ride? No, a bike race
I was planning to take a nice bike ride late Monday afternoon. Seriously, I was. Then our plans got turned around rather quickly, and we wound up in the middle of what turned out to be quite a good, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Life in southwest France, Sports, Tourist attractions
Tagged bicycle racing, bike race, Cénac
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A lovely, four-hour, end-of-March ride
In this posting I’m going to share a lovely, four-hour ride that my wife Jan and I took on this beautiful, sunny day — including a lot of photos of the Greater Daglan Area and the Dordogne Valley as it … Continue reading
Gariguettes on display
There we were yesterday, walking into a supermarket in Gourdon, our small shopping list in hand, when we were stopped dead by a large yellow poster in the window. Strawberries! Gariguettes! From France! In other words, folks, the first home-grown … Continue reading
Tourist Season 2012, Day 1
By the powers vested in us, we at Radio Free Daglan have declared today, Thursday, March 1, to be the official start of the 2012 Tourist Season in the Greater Daglan Area, the GDA. And we have sound reasoning behind … Continue reading
Fancy a horse ride?
It’s been a bit grey and rainy for the past several days, but no complaints from this corner of the Greater Daglan Area. The rain is much needed, the sun does break through now and again, and the temperatures are … Continue reading
Mother Nature — or Agent Orange?
I can confirm that it’s now getting pretty cold at night in the Greater Daglan Area, and it stays cold for most of the morning. Today my wife Jan was heading out in her car and realized she couldn’t see … Continue reading
