The place to be tonight in Southern Touraine 'Swing Pressigny'

Come along to Le Grand-Pressigny tonight for a great free night of entertainment with the mighty 'Audrey et Les Faces B' supported by our good friends 'I don't Know'

Something for the weekend Brocantes 7th / 8th July

Brocantes / vide greniers Saturday 7^th July

* Up to 50 stalls ** 50 to 100 stalls *** 100 to 200 stalls ****More than 200 stalls    ? Unknown

Tours  Vide Grenier  Place St,Paul *

Brocantes / vide greniers Sunday 8^th July

* Up to 50 stalls ** 50 to 100 stalls *** 100 to 200 stalls ****More than 200 stalls    ? Unknown

Avoine  Vide Grenier ?

Bridore  Brocante Vide-grenier *

Chatellerault Brocante – Lac de la Foret *****

Channay-sur-Lathan Brocante Vide-grenier **

Luze  Vide-grenier ***

Mettray Vide-grenier ?

Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais Vide-grenier **

Savonnieres Vide-grenier ?

Villandry Vide-grenier ?

Cher (18)

Indre (36)

Loir-et-Cher(41)

Loiret (45)

Maine-et-Loire(49)

Source: http://brocabrac.fr

Lunchtime at Loches

'Barroudeurs' free Music Festival Saturday 7th July

               20h MDM Blues

http://www.mdm-blues.fr/

 http://lesspads.wixsite.com/les-spads

     23,00 Fireworks 

https://theroadsters.bandcamp.com/releases

When will it end?

Another good evening last night with friends in Le Petit Pressigny but after two  great dinner parties in a row followed by a lovely evening under an awning at the Barrou campsite our bodies are asking when it will end? 

Unfortunately it may be only for a couple of days as we are hosting tomorrow night and our son Paul arrives on Thursday for another weekend of festivities!

The 'Old Walnut Mill'...a very warm welcome!

We welcomed new guests to the 'Old Walnut Mill' yesterday under a blue sky and a temperature of 30+

21st century 'Icarus'

Captured this helicopter as it flew overhead during our visit to the the International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire.

Something else for the weekend...

Something for the weekend Brocantes 30th June 1st July

Vic-sur-Gartempe

Brocantes / vide greniers Saturday 30^th June

* Up to 50 stalls ** 50 to 100 stalls *** 100 to 200 stalls ****More than 200 stalls    ? Unknown

Chaveignes  Vide Grenier  ?

Loches Vide Grenier  ?

Perusson Brocante / Vide Grenier  ***

Varennes Vide Grenier  *

  

Brocantes / vide greniers Sunday 1st July

* Up to 50 stalls ** 50 to 100 stalls *** 100 to 200 stalls ****More than 200 stalls    ? Unknown

Chambray-les-Tours  Vide Grenier ***

Chatellerault  'Les puces de Blossac' Brocante  **

La Riche  Brocante Vide-grenier **

Langeais Brocante du Lac ?

Nazelles-Negron Brocante Vide-grenier ***

Rivarenes Brocante Vide-grenier **

Saint-Maure-de-Touraine Vide-grenier ?

Sorigny Vide-grenier ?

Tours RueRoger Salengro Vide-grenier ?

Trogues Vide-grenier **

Veigne Vide-grenier ****

Vic-sur-Gartempe Brocante Vide-grenier **

Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival 2018 - a garden a day - 'La possibilite d'une ile'

We are going to feature some of our favourite gardens from this year's International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire . We will start with one of our favourite gardens 'Lapossibilite d'une ile'

You can read the designers description of the garden here.

Flash mobbing the pharmacy in Le Grand-Pressigny

It was Joannès, the pharmacist in Le Grand-Pressigny's last day yesterday and some of the locals decided to 'flash mob' the pharmacy.

We were delighted to be part of the little gathering afterwards at nearby 'Chez L'

Loire Valley's biggest price ticket?

We made our annual visit to the International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire, it was interesting to see that they no longer offer a 'gardens only' ticket option. 

For people like us who visit every year and don't necessarily want to visit the chateau interior every time it is slight financial loss that might otherwise buy us an ice cream or drink at their refreshment stop but would probably still say that  for the overall experience it is probably still good value for money.

This year's festival,in our humble opinion, wasn't as good as some of the previous years but still gave us some delightful highlights...

Last look...

My last look back on our great day out with Simon & Susan.  Liked how the lights of car above were used as a showroom.

This one had even more display potential. My suggestion to the French owner that he could keep some gold fish in it was met by only a slight touch of amusement!

This owner's mother-in-law was apparently kept in his boot!

I liked this car on a number of levels.

Descartes Sunday market...

Beautiful morning for visiting the morning market at Descartes and taking a stroll through their lovey public garden.

'Fete de la Musique' Le Grand-Pressigny...getting involved

Pic courtesy of Mike Funning

Dominique and I took full advantage of being involved in the 'Fete de la Musique' in Le Grand-Pressigny last night  with firstly a slightly bizarre set on the road in front of 'Chez Grand Ma' with the traffic driving in front of us, then on to the main stage before finishing off the night with a small intimate set back in the courtyard of 'Chez Grand Ma'...good fun.

Celtiqua on main stage

Anna Tanvir in the church

This was the first such event in the village and it was buzzing, a great credit goes to the organisers, with a great ambience and it was rounded off by the excellent Angie Palmer playing into the night. 

Video courtesy of Dave Madle

My 15 minutes of fame?

Fete de la Musique Le Petit-Pressigny

Dominique and I had our first 'public' performance last night at the 'Fete de la Musique' Le Petit-Pressigny where were the first act of the night. Good fun for us...hope our audience likes us! It was a night of diverse musical performances.

With the highlights for me being Zoe Thompson the 16 year girl from Tours' set and a rousing performance of 'Hallelujah' from the acapella  group 'Entre Nous'.

It was left to Celtiqua to bring the event to a lively close after a long wait to perform.