Sharing some more suite...................in France

I know I know - this time around am a bit late but not because I have not been doing my homework!! Promise - just because have been rather busy with end of year accounting etc etc - will not bore you with the silly detail!
In the meantime just want to share with you the following -

Places and people in France 


The list is rather long, and two days ago I was writing away happily and thought all was saved - but as with the wonderful world of computers et al, when I looked again, what I wrote was wiped out! So this is the shortened version of what you would've had!
Sorry Chaps - c'est la vie!

Paris 


Pierre's appartment:
Our friend Pierre has a very nice 'pied a terre' in Paris in the 12th arrondissement. A stone's throw from the Gare de Lyon making your arrival from the airports easy. The metro gets you all around Paris - or you can explore the nearby Aligre Market on foot and it is a quick bus ride to Bastille (or you do it by foot on the wonderful walkway called  'La coulée verte' )
(http://www.new-paris-ile-de-france.co.uk/guides-paris/routes/coulee-verte-and-beyond/up-and-down-the-viaduc-des-arts-77651.html)


His appartment has a bedroom for a couple, a lounge (with pull out bunk for an extra person or another couple), a dining room, kitchen and bathroom. He rents this for 70 euros / day. Pierre is also willing to do B and B for you and as he knows Paris off by heart, can take you around the place. His English is perfect (for a Frenchman!!) and he is a charming man who's travelled the world!
You can contact him :  
Pierre Bouiller

4, rue Sidi Brahim

75012 PARIS

email : lejaunet@orange.fr of pierrebouiller@yahoo.fr

Selfoon : +33-630233097

 

Bar a Soupes : In a previous post I've allready told you about our friend Anne-Catherine who used to be one of Olivier's clients when they both still worked in the 'showbizz' as we call it here in France. Anne-Catherine left the limelight as manager to a couple of French singers to open the first 'Bar-à-Soupes' in Paris in 2000! Anne-Catherine has been going from strenght to strenght and has publised a couple of books on Soups as well. Her website : http://www.lebarasoupes.com/

Outside Paris


Boat hotel near Bzier  : I first met Olivier Baudry many years ago in South Africa when I was working as a consultant on a Southern African Contemporary Art Exhibition in Paris. He had a Company called Zindouba - http://www.zindouba.com/eng_index.htm But his first love for barges (and a lovely lady called Gladys) called him back to France and he bought a barge near Bezier and does wonderful exclusive excursion with this!

www.hotelbargealegria.com

My wonderful crazy eccentric English friend Stephanie (who's son Henry is the hottest hit on the British fashion scene with his label 'House of Holland' - you can view his blog on Vogue here: http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/henry-holland/) and her partner bought Chateau du Ludaix around the same time we settled here in the Auvergne! They decorated it in a lavish delicious English style and you can either rent it as a whole, for workshops, special occassions like weddings etc or just simple Bed and Breakfast! Check out the full monty on their website : http://www.chateauduludaix.com/ 

Chateau du Ludaix

Marie-Claire and her partner renovated, in a remote corner of the Combraille's here in our beautifull Auvernge, the most wonderful two units - the chicken coop and the dovecot. They have done this with such taste and style and propose botanical outings with a local Botanist - of course a must for all the tired, city sleekers!  
http://leseydieux.canalblog.com/

Marloes der Kinderen came to France many moons ago and organised all different kinds of acitivities mostly in the artistic line. She first rented in a little village that subsequently became a very fasionable Relaix et Chateau Hotel, and then bought this beautiful house on the 'flank' of a hill in a 'lost' corner of the 'Haute Loire' - still Auvernge. Done with such taste and style, La Grande Maison is a real 'havre de paix'! http://www.artedu.nl/maison/

If ever you have the opportunity to go and eat 'chez Michel Bras', just ouside of Lagioule, the best place to stay, appart from their very divine but expensive hotel, is chez Claudine and Philippe, at the Ferme de Moulhac : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/moulhac/index.html

I have so many other places to tell you about, but if I do not publish this now, you'll never get any more posts from me! So with my lovely glass of South African White wine, on a crispy cold starry night here in our beautiful Auvergne, a froggie hug and to say it's really nice sharing with you!


Life is about sharing
Bisous
Lynn