{"id":10422,"date":"2021-08-18T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:03:54","slug":"week-of-local-events-in-south-west-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/week-of-local-events-in-south-west-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of local events in south-west France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Market of variety<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week of July was full of local events in Brossac and its surroundings. Participation in them was the best opportunity to immerse in the <strong>French culture<\/strong> and practice the language. The first thing that we attended was Monday market in the town of Chalais. That was the unique <strong>experience <\/strong>of tasting and buying local specialties, drinking coffee and talking to people, which made us feel as we were locals. You can read a bit more about our visit to the market in one of my last posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Picnic by the lake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day also did not let us get bored. In the evening we went to the lake to take part in the picnic. Everybody brought some food with themselves and share it with others. Thanks to that, we could enjoy <strong>French<\/strong>, homemade dishes. Sitting on the grass, at one, long table together felt like being a part of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights-378x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights-378x600.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/picnic-lights.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lights on the picnic improving the atmosphere<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walk &amp; eat<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday (31st of July) we had a chance to get a new <strong>experience <\/strong>by showing up at the event called &#8220;Marche gourmande&#8221; in Ch\u00e2tignac &#8211; a village 3 km away from Brossac. The idea of it is to take a walk through charming rural area of <strong>south-west France<\/strong> and stopping for a meal every few kilometres. The order of eating is no different than <strong>French<\/strong>. We started with aperitif in salle des f\u00eates in Ch\u00e2tignac and after that we set off on our journey. Every next stop was entr\u00e9e, plat, fromage and dessert. In total, we went around 12 km. We got back to the place where we started just after it got dark. The timing was perfect, just as the whole concept of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chatignac-walk_and_eat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chatignac-walk_and_eat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chatignac-walk_and_eat.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chatignac-walk_and_eat-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/chatignac-walk_and_eat-150x80.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Paul &#8211; president of the association, Singaporean-American volunteer and Polish Erasmus intern during the event<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>South-western France<\/strong> is full of interesting events which enrich our <strong>interning <\/strong>and <strong>volunteering<\/strong> <strong>experience<\/strong> at La Giraudi\u00e8re. We will make the most of it and I will make sure that you will stay informed about everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market of variety Last week of July was full of local events in Brossac and its surroundings. Participation in them was the best opportunity to immerse in the French culture and practice the language. The first thing that we attended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/week-of-local-events-in-south-west-france\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[992,265,355,1020,267,311,103,823,821,819],"tags":[353,927,16,25,251,57,1050,53,105],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-erasmus","category-france","category-internship","category-vacation-france","category-volunteer","category-volunteering","category-volunteering-holidays-abroad","category-volunteering-in-france","category-volunteers-holiday-abroad","tag-erasmus","tag-experience","tag-france","tag-french","tag-intern","tag-internship","tag-south-west-france","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}