Author Archives: La Giraudiere
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 websitePrince Miiaou rocks out at Brossac Lake’s last concert of the year!
This Thursday has been a bit of a changover. Seeing as it’s Hollie and Vanessa’s last week, someone of course needs to take over from their roles! We thought the best idea is to have Hiroko take over being … Continue reading
Paul gets a well deserved rest!
Wednesday, Hiroko has been making the finishing touches of her Japanese blog and web pages well worth a visit the link coming soon. The fridges got a well deserved sprinkling from Hollie and Vanessa. Emily helped by John carried on … Continue reading
Chicken Nanban in Brossac – another first for La Giraudiere!
So it’s Tuesday, the weekend is now over and it’s back to work with some beautiful weather. Today Paul, Hugh and Sergey carried on with the building of the handicapped friendly bathroom in Gite 4. Paul also took Vanessa to … Continue reading
Monday at Brossac is a quiet day but not for those at La Giraudiere
Early start Monday off to the Market at Chalais as it is a Bank Holiday here in France. Lunch time saw Hugh return from his trip to Angoulême and in the evening Paul took Hiroko, Sergey and Emily to the … Continue reading
Brocante on Sunday at Berneuil
On Sunday Hugh set off to Angoulême to meet up with some family and Paul took Sergey and Emily off to a local Brocante in Berneuil. Sergey found some bargains for presents and Paul purchased some more badminton rackets to … Continue reading
