[Mussidan-Bergerac road]

Thanks for that.The diversion  was certainly still in place a week ago so we avoided the area on Saturday. We will be travelling back down from Angouleme on the 23rd and it would be our preferred route to Castillonnes as it avoids Perigueux. Perhaps we should just try and risk it!

[Mussidan-Bergerac road]

Does anyone know anything about when the road between Mussidan and Bergerac will be open again. We were not best pleased to have to divert to St Foy le Grande at the end of  a long journey from Boulogne in April but I can't find out anything about it. Does anyone know of a French roads website giving this information?

Gill

[New forum covering Lot et Garonne, Dordogne & Gironde]

Most odd, sometimes it comes up as quick as anything and sometimes I get a 'no go' message! Wish you the very best - we have had a holiday/ part time retirement home near Castillonnes for the past eight years.

Gill

[Incredible Ferry Offer]

Coco,

We were unable to cross on our booked crossing with Speedferries at the end of October because of ferocious seas. We were given our moey back and crossed with Sea France for £ 49(?) single. Used the normal return from Speedferries. The price says it all!!

Gill

[French Radio]

Even here in Northern Scotland I am able to listen to France Inter on LW - frequency 162 (i.e. just before Radio4)

Gill

[Carol Drinkwater mark 3]

My mum and I still rate the Ruth Silvestre books about France the best - A House In The Sunflowers, Harvest of Sunflowers and a recently published third volume the title of which escapes me!

Gill

[Rosyth - Zeebrugge]

It's brilliant. New ships. Good food - book ahead for the buffets, its cheaper. It saves all that tedious drive down Britain.
Gill

[cost of pasture land]

Bearing in mind that much land in England is 3000 an acre and you are talking about over eight and a half acres and that the land around Villeneuve is VERY productive I think it is possible. Land for cropping, whether it be cereals , vegetables or fruit is worth much more than cattle country. What is growing in the next fields? I would imagine that much bare land is worth more in 47 than in 24, for instance, because it is so much more productive.
From someone married to a farmer for 30 years!! Oh, He's just come in and agrees and adds if there are good trees around the outside it shows it has a good depth of soil.
Thrilled to say we'll be there next week!!
Gill