Brocante

Brocante is flea-market.
They use to be high quality antiques but now its more antique junk.
The prices are also a bit ridiculous. An old doll bed going for $200.00. All the women here love them and told me I had to go to the one in Rauzan which was held this weekend.

Today marks our 2 month anniversary of moving here and it was a great feeling to walk through the market and say hello familiar faces.

The French love chairs! The market went on and on ...an old bath tub you can find just about anything here a possible Christmas present? beautiful old watches, dont know if they work They have churros here but they call them chichi cute chair Tatiana's favorite stand they will even sell you their relatives picture an old heater


Its Bourru et Marron season which is a young fizzy wine that you drink with roasted chestnuts. The wine only last one week and it then goes off, so this week everyone drinks bourru. It comes in red, which is very sweet like a sangria and white, which we preferred.




It is not sold by the bottle, you just bring your container and they fill it up

Local Chateaux

There are so many beautiful Chateaux here.
I wish I could photograph all of them.
Here are a few of my favorites


Chateau Malle

Chateau turned hotel ~Grand Barrail Chateau Fonplegade Owned by the Adams Family from Connecticut

Chateaux Lussac

Turning 7

Look who's 7!

Birthday cake at school



celebrating with our new South African friends
at Tatiana's favorite pizza place



Cammie gave her a gift

Thank you everyone who called, sent birthday
presents, emails or cards. Tatiana felt very loved :)

Birthdays here are very different. You are not allowed to be at school for the cake.
You just drop it off in the morning. No gifts allowed at school. Which I didnt know and made all the kids a little birthday bag. What will I do with all those gift bags??
They dont make kids birthday cakes like the kind I usually get at Cinderella cakes.
You have to order a grown up cake and they just write happy birthday on it.
They are really expensive ($80.00+) but they best tasting cake you will ever have.
We have met a South African family (Pierre and Lynn who have Jordan 9 Cammie 4) so we invited them to Tatiana's favorite pizza place. Since we go there very often the owners already know us. It turned out to be a very nice night. I think Tatiana felt very celebrated.

Tatiana's classes

Wednesday is the day for Tatiana's fun classes.
The music school in Libourne The class where she learns to read music Her singing class
piano lessons


Ballet school some new friends



There is a local pool with a fantastic
slide that Tatiana loves.
The other side is the adult pool. I will have to get use to
the fact that the men here wear speedo's :+

Container arrived

Today was a great day!! All our stuff arrived! We had to put most of it in another storage and take some of the stuff home with us. I am so happy to see all my clothes:)

We did see that one of the bed post broke, we wont be opening any of the boxes yet so we still dont know what survived.

Doug the Scot helped us out
Tatiana's surprise birthday present

Our furniture
We wont be seeing any of these things until we buy a house

Ended the day at this great restaurant for a late lunch



Every restaurant has a resident dog, this was theirs