Relaxing

I often get asked about blogging every day, ‘Is it difficult to find something to write about?’, ‘How do you find time?’, ‘Who takes the photographs?’. Well I have to say the last few days have been a bit difficult, I think I’d just got a bit tired. We’ve had the end of the canicule (heatwave), which I think actually took it out of both Brian and I.

So we decided to take a few days out of the calendar, relaxing at home, peppered with some glorious days out and meals with friends. We’ve also managed to enjoy the experience of vendanges, with invitations to some of the pressoirs where we’ve been able to see first hand how different producers have honed slightly different methods and processes to harvest and press their grapes. We’ve experienced the amazing atmosphere’s amongst the owners and workers, and how they keep each other motivated, all wanting to pick good grapes, and beat their daily bests. Then sharing their meals together, tired and exhausted, but clean after a refreshing dip in the river or a hot shower and, still jovial, ready to start it all again tomorrow.

It’s such a beautiful time of year.

I’m now feeling more refreshed and motivated to finish off the posts I’ve been writing the last few days. I will be posting them over the weekend.

One of the reasons, very early on, as to why I chose to write a daily blog was to capture our story of moving to France and setting up the chambre d’hôte, along with capturing our daily life. When taking a moment to take stock, and look back at what we’ve achieved, and what our daily life is now like, it makes us realise how far we have come.