Monthly Archives: March 2012

A lovely, four-hour, end-of-March ride

Posted on March 31, 2012 by loren24250

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 →

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Give us this day…

Posted on March 30, 2012 by loren24250

If you silently finished the thought in the headline with “…our daily bread,” then you may well be French. Because few things are as important to the French as their bread. If you’ve visited France, you know. If you haven’t, … Continue reading →

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Dodging bulldozers

Posted on March 29, 2012 by loren24250

Say you’re in the Greater Daglan Area and you’re driving from Gourdon to the Big D itself (that’s Daglan, silly). First you’ll follow the D673 away from Gourdon, and then you’ll turn right at Pont Carral. From there you’ll follow … Continue reading →

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Around the world in 80 blogs (or so)

Posted on March 28, 2012 by loren24250

Last summer (July 19, to be exact) I was pleased to announce that Radio Free Daglan had won a “Recommended Website” award from Expat Focus. Now the Expat Focus organization has expanded and improved its listing of top-rated blogs from … Continue reading →

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Gariguettes on display

Posted on March 25, 2012 by loren24250

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 →

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The greening of the GDA

Posted on March 23, 2012 by loren24250

Getting the Greater Daglan Area to look right has been a bit of a struggle. Despite having summer officially declared (by Radio Free Daglan), the countryside has been looking awfully brown, and the plants and flowers and shrubs and flowering … Continue reading →

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A plate full of colour

Posted on March 19, 2012 by loren24250

I closed yesterday’s post by writing that our shopping trip to Bergerac on Saturday included a visit to a supermarket, where we bought veal shanks (for my rather tasty osso buco) and a variety of seafood. So I spent yesterday … Continue reading →

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Deconstruction in Bergerac

Posted on March 18, 2012 by loren24250

Things don’t always turn out as you’d planned (in case you hadn’t noticed). Yesterday, for example, we drove off to Bergerac for some serious shopping, and wound up doing some serious lunching. You’re surprised? Admittedly, we had planned to lunch … Continue reading →

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Loving our summer, but all set for winter

Posted on March 14, 2012 by loren24250

Spring seems to have lasted about two weeks in the Greater Daglan Area (GDA), from March 1 until today. You may recall that, by the powers vested in us, we at Radio Free Daglan officially declared March 1 as the … Continue reading →

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Two dishes du jour

Posted on March 12, 2012 by loren24250

I’ve written about Le Grand Bleu, the restaurant in Sarlat that holds a well-deserved Michelin star, several times already. My wife Jan and I ate there for the first time in December 2010, and I described our meal in a … Continue reading →

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