Friends

One of the things I really struggled with when moving to France was not being able to just have those simple conversations with friends, the ones where you don’t really talk about too much in particular, but just chat and catch up on things.

Over the last few months though, things have changed. People are traveling once again, and friends are visiting us. It has been so good having the chance to just natter and while away some time with familiar voices. Yesterday a group of old friends arrived on a stop off heading south. It was a warm autumn day, around 20°C, so we enjoyed a very pleasant lunch in the garden, catching up on everyones lives - family, work, hobbies (golf seemed to feature heavily), holidays and mutual friends - such fun to be reminded of some marvellous memories.

After lunch we headed up to the point de vue to stretch our legs and soak up some autumn sunshine.

We had a champagne tasting booked for 5pm at Andre Fay’s et Fils in Celles sur Ource, so we were not out for too long. We wandered together around the top of the vineyards, following the line of trees, and then headed back to the house to set off on our tasting.