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Nederlands (Dutch)Le Vintéol June 2019

In June 2019 Laura and I with Michel spend a week in the Massif Central in France, in a house in the small village Le Vintéol.


Cléry-Saint-André

We stay one night in Cléry-Saint-André, a village near Orléans on the Loire.


B&B

Our bed and breakfast is a converted farm, and our rooms are on the top floor.


Cléry-Saint-André

Cléry-Saint-André.


Michel

Michel.


branch

Sawn off branch.


Philos

There is a Philos 4M from 1913 in someone's yard. The owner is not at home.


Laura

Laura.


church

Church.


Cléry-Saint-André

Cléry-Saint-André at sunset.


garden

In the morning in the garden of our bed and breakfast.


foals

Near the house are two horses, each with a foal.


field with poppies

Field with poppies.


lunch

We have lunch along a back road.


meadow

A meadow (phone photo by Laura).


house

Our house and garden in Le Vintéol.


house

The house next door seems to be a ruin.


chandelier

Chandelier in a church in Clermont-Ferrand.


mural

Mural in Clermont-Ferrand.


tower

Tower.


bedroom

Our bedroom.


letters

In the bedroom is a box with letters that someone as a prisoner of war during World War II sent to Le Vintéol.


terrace

Our terrace. It's very warm; several days in a row the afternoon temperature is over 40 °C, and in the evening it cools down all too slowly. Each following day we find the heat a little harder to bear.


garden

The garden.


lake

Because of the heat we often go swimming (but not in this lake, if I remember correctly).


Laura

Laura on the Puy de Dôme. In this heat it is advisable to do little and to do it slowly, but still we want to go out and do something. On top of the mountain there is a bit more wind and the heat is just a bit less intense.


Michel

Michel on the Puy de Dôme.


uitzicht

Uitzicht vanaf de berg.


Laura

Laura.


view

View from the mountain. Other dead volcanoes are visible nearby.


Laura and Michel

Laura and Michel on the Puy de Dôme.


schoolklas

School class on an apparent excursion on the slope of the Puy de Dôme.


sheep

Sheep.


sheep

Hulloder!


rails

Rack-and-pinion railway to the top of the mountain.


garden

It is so warm that even I wear shorts. That is telling (phone photo by Laura).


Venus

Apart from us, in the restaurant in the village that evening there is only one other guest. We have a beer with him in the bath. We usually stay outside for a long time in the evenings. We see a bright spot that we suspect may be Venus.

After this week Michel continues his holidays in other parts of France, and Laura and I travel to Kippel in Switzerland for a week.


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