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Playing Games in Europe : Doppelkopf
As lovers of Doppelkopf we’ve long wondered how we could organise a Doppelkopf group here in France. Would the French be likely to take up
this typically German game? And how do we explain in French the different versions of the game...
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As lovers of Doppelkopf we’ve long wondered how we could organise a Doppelkopf group here in France. Would the French be likely to take up
this typically German game? And how do we explain in French the different versions of the game...
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The rich Médoc
Why “the riches of the Médoc”? Historians, especially those in Bordeaux, believe the Médoc is a land of savages living in an unspeakable
country, full of pestilential marshes, inhabited by half-savages, even complete savages, shipwreckers, hideous beings, in short ….. there
is nothing to excite their curiosity...
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Why “the riches of the Médoc”? Historians, especially those in Bordeaux, believe the Médoc is a land of savages living in an unspeakable
country, full of pestilential marshes, inhabited by half-savages, even complete savages, shipwreckers, hideous beings, in short ….. there
is nothing to excite their curiosity...
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Edible wild plants in Médoc gardens
On the 31st July, within the framework of La table européenne, Médoc-Actif and La maison d'Artemis invited Laurence Dessimoulie. After a
brief outline art of her way of cooking and her approach to the flora of the Médoc, Laurence invited each one of us to discover the wild
plants in our own gardens: their gustative, nutritional and sometimes even curative values...
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On the 31st July, within the framework of La table européenne, Médoc-Actif and La maison d'Artemis invited Laurence Dessimoulie. After a
brief outline art of her way of cooking and her approach to the flora of the Médoc, Laurence invited each one of us to discover the wild
plants in our own gardens: their gustative, nutritional and sometimes even curative values...
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Old Soulac and the sand-free bunker, accompanied by quiches and salads
Despite the threat of a storm (the event was planned for the open air), more than 40 interested Europeans, mainly French and German, came together
in the hope of being enraptured by 83 year old Jean-Paul Lescorce. And it worked...
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Despite the threat of a storm (the event was planned for the open air), more than 40 interested Europeans, mainly French and German, came together
in the hope of being enraptured by 83 year old Jean-Paul Lescorce. And it worked...
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French-german four-handed
Ever since I was a child and learnt how to play piano, I loved to play piano four hands with my teacher and friends. In fact, for this kind of
practice it is particularly difficult to find a partner you can harmonize well with so that musically speaking “the chemistry is right”....
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Ever since I was a child and learnt how to play piano, I loved to play piano four hands with my teacher and friends. In fact, for this kind of
practice it is particularly difficult to find a partner you can harmonize well with so that musically speaking “the chemistry is right”....
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Medoc – Ireland: Where to live - How to live
We were looking for something different from our life in a German city. For me (Ilona) and my children, life there had become almost intolerable.
For us, a house in the Medoc was our dream, as it is for many other Germans and Europeans. After a lot of effort, it became our reality...
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We were looking for something different from our life in a German city. For me (Ilona) and my children, life there had become almost intolerable.
For us, a house in the Medoc was our dream, as it is for many other Germans and Europeans. After a lot of effort, it became our reality...
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Pulse of Europe - our hope
It was when a friend flew a European flag outside his bungalow at Euronat, that we first understood his enthusiasm for the group « Pulse of Europe »
The work of this group had been growing for some time but, at the time of our arrival, had not yet reached the Medoc...
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It was when a friend flew a European flag outside his bungalow at Euronat, that we first understood his enthusiasm for the group « Pulse of Europe »
The work of this group had been growing for some time but, at the time of our arrival, had not yet reached the Medoc...
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An english-french friendship
When, at the age of eleven, I started to learn French at school, our teacher asked if any of us would like a French penfriend. I jumped at the chance,
expecting to find a friend in Paris. However, when I received news of my penfriend I discovered that she lived in Gaillan-en-Médoc.. We corresponded
regularly, writing alternately in English and in French. When I was fifteen I travelled to the Médoc to stay with her. On meeting her and her mother
at Gare St. Jean in Bordeaux, I could hardly understand a word they said...
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When, at the age of eleven, I started to learn French at school, our teacher asked if any of us would like a French penfriend. I jumped at the chance,
expecting to find a friend in Paris. However, when I received news of my penfriend I discovered that she lived in Gaillan-en-Médoc.. We corresponded
regularly, writing alternately in English and in French. When I was fifteen I travelled to the Médoc to stay with her. On meeting her and her mother
at Gare St. Jean in Bordeaux, I could hardly understand a word they said...
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From-paradise-to-paradise
Having arrived at your lovely chalet, I felt that there was a very warm and happy atmosphere and that everything had been arranged and put together
with great loving care. I live at Jersey, the biggest of the Channel Islands and I find that the sea, the dunes, the fauna und flora are much the
same – but there are things we haven’t got and which I much enjoyed...
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Having arrived at your lovely chalet, I felt that there was a very warm and happy atmosphere and that everything had been arranged and put together
with great loving care. I live at Jersey, the biggest of the Channel Islands and I find that the sea, the dunes, the fauna und flora are much the
same – but there are things we haven’t got and which I much enjoyed...
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Marriage of beer and wine
If it’s the case that one doesn’t take beer to Munich, then instead one could indeed brings it to St Seurin de Cadourne instead, where, to reward the
joint committee of the participating communes on their 30th birthday for the creation of the original committee in 1985, the authorities of Bevern*
commune (Lower Saxony,Germany), were able to assemple at the village hall of St Seurin on one Sunday evening of the year 2015...
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If it’s the case that one doesn’t take beer to Munich, then instead one could indeed brings it to St Seurin de Cadourne instead, where, to reward the
joint committee of the participating communes on their 30th birthday for the creation of the original committee in 1985, the authorities of Bevern*
commune (Lower Saxony,Germany), were able to assemple at the village hall of St Seurin on one Sunday evening of the year 2015...
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Hidden Bunkers
The many bunkers here on the Médoc beaches are a familiar sight and an invitation to graffiti artists. The ordinary walker on the beach doesn’t really
know that they are part of the Atlantic Wall, that mighty line of defence built by the Germans along the whole of the European coast during World War
II. This line of concrete extends from Norway to the Spanish frontier and at first comprised some 15,000 large and small bunkers...
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The many bunkers here on the Médoc beaches are a familiar sight and an invitation to graffiti artists. The ordinary walker on the beach doesn’t really
know that they are part of the Atlantic Wall, that mighty line of defence built by the Germans along the whole of the European coast during World War
II. This line of concrete extends from Norway to the Spanish frontier and at first comprised some 15,000 large and small bunkers...
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