It happens every where in France on the Quatorze...So it happened here! When you live in the center you get to be in the middle of everything and as La Fonciere is right in the center I didn't have to go far to take these photos...I was trying to get an early night but there is early and early...I got to bed at 1.30am...sort of early!...Not making excuses (really) I'm not a brilliant photographer but the fireworks were amazing...Coming this weekend is our 'proper' fete...three days of fun and dancing and food and wine...I am going to try to get early nights but my dancing toes are twitching...
I know you were, so here is your reward...The highlight of your weekend I'm sure! I mentioned the old wallpaper and here it is, the newspaper that backed it dated from the early 1800's somebody in the past had already stripped most of it. This bit was, it appears too tricky to remove so it was left...I'm not going to argue with all those years of history so I've decided to make a 'feature' of it. The borders and red bits are 'flock'... oh I love it because it reminds me so much of the 70's...Enjoy :-)
Back home and ready to crack on! So, I've got one room functioning as a chambre d'hote room...But that's not the end is it?...oh no...the goal is to eventually have five rooms so it's back to the 'doing of it all' This will be the second room. I've already done quite a lot of work on it but this is what I started with: In this room, as I stripped it out I found the oldest wallpaper and newspaper lining I've found anywhere in the house. It dates from the early 1800's...I've tried to preserve what bits I could. If you're good and keep reading I'll show you in my next post. I think this room will have a very different feel to the first one I've done, It's on the 'other side' of the house which does have a different 'feel' It's very quiet as it doesn't look over the market place but over a very sedate little road.
I know I've been quiet and it is because I have been on holiday. I had my second set of guests (you know who you are!). They were absolutely lovely and decided to stay an extra night, they even braved my food. Half an hour after they left on the Saturday morning I was in the car with the teenagers heading south to the beach for a week of...um...beach. Here's a picture of a lovely flower I saw growing not far from the beach. I don't know what it is but I thought it was really pretty. We went to Port Barcares and stayed on a lovely and friendly campsite called La Bahia Club. I'd never visited that bit of coast before, I'm glad I did. The beaches were beautiful with views of the Pyrenees as a backdrop. Some days there was a strong wind, we loved watching the waves. Here are the teenagers feeling the wind in their hair. I'd spotted a restaurant that claimed to be built of old soft drink cans...I had to visit so we had lunch there before heading home. It was called Mex-i-Can...get it! It was built out of cans, very beautifully. They used 20,000 cans and it took them 3000 man/woman hours to build it. It was right on the beach, the food was of course Mexican...Now I've never been to Mexico but if that is what they are eating there I might have to go and live there. It was lovely food, the people running it were very friendly and it had great sea views. If you're ever in the area I so recommend it...Just don't tell me because I'll be so jealous!
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