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About La Giraudiere

The whole idea of the La Giraudiere project is for people of all backgrounds, all ages, all nationalities to have the chance to live together learn about each others lifestyle exchange their knowledge, experiences and skills whilst living and working together in France and at the same time helping, improving and adding to the Project for those to come in the future. To see the different types of volunteers work that has been done and what is still required visit our website

Yankie Aussie Lynne

Lynne, an Australian now living on the States who has been avoiding a mixture of accents over the past five years, arrived at La Giraudiere two weeks ago with another to go. She has done a great job on de-weeding … Continue reading

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Soon-to-be French teacher Fiona

Another LG volunteer here at the moment is Fiona from Nottingham, who has also been with is for the past three weeks and will be leaving this coming Tuesday. Fiona has been doing some great work on a new programme … Continue reading

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Mark – another familiar face

Emily is not the only LG returner at the moment, we now have Mark back too! He arrived Monday and will be staying for another two weeks before he heads back to England. So far, he has been doing the … Continue reading

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Corinna leaves La Giraudière

Today is the day that we had to say goodbye to Corinna who has been with us for the past three weeks. She has left to do a bit of travelling around sunny South of France before returning back to … Continue reading

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Emily returns to La Giraudiere

Three times lucky and Emily tries her luck again at La Giraudiere as she returns for her third visit. Emily will be looking after the blog and keeping you informed of what has passed and what is happening.

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