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16th May 2008
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Property, Holidays and Life in the Lot and Quercy Region BIENVENUE! To the fabulous southwest. We have created this site to give you a comprehensive guide to the Lot, Lot et Garonne and Tarn et Garonne covering property for sale, holiday accommodation, holiday activities and much more. So whether you're searching for holidays, properties or the wonderful life in this sunny corner of France, you'll find them all here.  Editors, Lot and Quercy.    Popular LinksRed Wine of CahorsProperty For Sale, Lauzerte Carroll Property Services Restaurant Guide French Wine Shop South West France Estate Agency Reiki France The Quercy Diary - A year in the Quercy French white wine A Year in the Quercy Quick LinksFrench News HeadlinesSchool Life in France Rules of Rural Living Running a Cahors Vineyard Cahors Photo of the Month What's the Weather Like? The Albas Wine Festival Geese, Ducks and Pigeons Doctors and Dentists Amanda Lawrence Camping and Campsites in the Lot and Quercy Camping in the Lot and Dordogne Valley |
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The sweet smell of a thousand fragrant Gariguette strawberries lured me round Cahors market last Wednesday. The day was warm, the sky a cloudless blue and the stalwart stallholders were in carnival mood. Asparagus assailed me as I entered the fray at the southern end....
They certainly did in Tournon on Thursday. This ancient and beautiful bastide village was overflowing with flowers and plants of every conceivable variety. The sun shone, heat radiated from the old stones and delicious fragrances permeated the alleyways...
May has arrived, gloriously warm after a somewhat miserable spell and we have watched the trees go green during the week - it seems as if they were waiting for a bit of sun to encourage them...
The recent currency exchange rate fluctuations have reduced the buying power of people moving from the UK to France. But French property is still outstanding value compared to the UK. Sell your detached four-bedroom house in Sussex for £425,000 and see what you could buy in the Lot and Quercy region of southwest France...
Le Lot – Travels through a limestone landscape in southwest France. Helen Martin's book is a vast volume of impeccably researched fact and delicious personal preference. She puts meat on the bones of other guidebooks...
Four star Camping Château de Lacomté is charmingly nestled within 32 acres of beautiful natural parkland in the heart of The Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park in the Lot and Dordogne Valley region of France. The campsite is fully equipped with facilities for caravans, tents, trailer tents and motorhomes this is the perfect place for your camping holiday...
The panoramic view from my terrace stretches for thirty kilometres, across immaculately tended vineyards, huddled villages, river valleys and great sweeps of forested landscape. In the far distance, if your eyesight is pretty good, you can just make out the tower at Tournon D’Agenais...
Edith Piaf was one of France's best known and most loved singers. Less well known is that she was a regular visitor to the Lot and Quercy region. Lesser known still is the secret donation she made to save the church at Gluges in the Northern Lot...
Find out about the cost effective solutions that FrenchEntrée Lot and Quercy can offer to get your business highly ranked online! Let us take away some of the stress of setting-up business in the Lot and Quercy by creating, optimising and managing either a web page or website profiling your business...
Looking for somewhere special to spend a few days in a delightful setting with English-speaking hosts? Check out our selection of Featured Bed and Breakfasts in the Lot, Lot et Garonne and Tarn et Garonne...
A celebrated son of Figeac, Champollion revolutionised our understanding of ancient scripts by deciphering the hieroglyphics on the famous "Rosetta Stone". First opened in 1986, in the house where he was born, the Champollion museum has remained dedicated mainly to hieroglyphics and Egyptology.
Created in 2002, the secret gardens of Cahors amount to 29 in total and are laid out along a waymarked route around the city. The secret gardens include an arab garden, a lavender garden, an apple tree garden, a garden of spices, a monastery garden...
Looking for some serious fishing in south west France? The beautiful and unspoiled Lot, Tarn, Garonne and Aveyron rivers hold Carp over 60lb and Catfish over 150lb!
Originating from the US and with a background in graphic design, Leslee Carsewell now shares her time between her homeland and the country of her dreams – France. We find out more about her widely acclaimed photographs of the Lot/Dordogne region
Glorious Aquitaine, fabled land of many rivers, once stretched from the Loire valley to the Pyrenees, that was many years ago when it was a rich, medieval dukedom, when Eleanor was its Duchess and her court attracted the greatest troubadours of the age...
Want to find out more about real life in the Lot and Quercy region? Take a look at the new Blogs being run by some of our Forum members. More bloggers welcome!
Our new, postcard sized, list of French emergency phone numbers is available free of charge to FrenchEntree-LotandQuercy viewers. Ideal to keep by your home telephone or in your car.
Piscine-Plus have been supplying and installing swimming pools throughout France for the last 15 years and are the sole distributor of Christal swimming pools in France. Christal Pools are specialists in steel framed in-ground pools ...
