La Comice
As this area is mostly farming and agriculture each commune takes its turn each year to host the Comice – which is an agricultural show.
This year was the turn of a village close by called Chartené to host this event. Everyone in the village takes part in putting this event together and it is taken very seriously. Unfortunately this year after a long hot spell of weather on the day of the Comice it was not so good, very cloudy with some rain. This however did not dampen their spirits and as usual there was a great turnout.
Bon voyage!
Vic, Gary’s cousin waving goodbye after a weeks stay. He came on the relatively new service from Eastern Airways. Very small planes but very big on customer service, they fly from Southampton to Angers.
Looking at it's best
The château and gardens at Villandry looking at their best against a beautiful blue sky on a hot summers day.
That's better!!
After last years rain making the maize grow to over 12 foot and restricting our view. What a pleasant change this year to have lovely sunflowers all standing to attention as you can see. We also had wheat and not maize to the other side of us and due to the hot weather we have had it has turned a beautiful golden color. Most of it has now been harvested.
Cochon Grillé
We attended the local village pig roast. We were the only English people there but the locals made us feel very welcome. Gary was even invited to have ago at their local game of Boule à fort and he managed to hit the white ball first time, so they declared him a champion!!
It was a very hot day, thank goodness we ate inside away from the blistering heat of the sun.
