Motorbikes and the Dordogne

Life in the best part of France through the eyes of a biker couple. Contact: bikesindordogne@yahoo.co.uk

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Dordogne towns from the air

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St Leon sur Vezere Rouffignac-st-Cernin Plazac Plazac Les Eyzies Les Eyzies We have collected quite a few photos of some of the local towns ...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Yet another flying video

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Had a nice trip south yesterday and Jude took this video.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

The resistance in the Dordone WW2

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A couple of years ago I found a bayonet at an old house. It was a spike bayonet and a bit corroded. After much cleaning I managed to identif...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Great music - great flying

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Just found this video that I thought I should upload to Youtube. The music is by a local group called Paris-Londres. I have liked their musi...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Solar water heating

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We have lived here for four and a half years now. Since we arrived I have wanted to do my bit for the environment and install a solar water ...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Political correctness

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Political correctness is something that seems to be hitting the news in the British media at the moment. Carol Thatcher is said to have used...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Microlight forums

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Many microlight pilots around the world spend some time on the web. Forums have been very popular for exchanging information and posting pic...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

The financial crisis in the UK

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With the UK financial crisis set to become worse than it is now, I wonder how much the individual is to blame. During the 60's and 70...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Great flying weather

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We seem to be going through a spell of blue skies and little wind here in the Dordogne. Sunday was the first of those days and as it has bee...
Monday, December 15, 2008

The new airfield

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This post may be of interest to anyone who wants to build their own airfield in France. We found a farmers field which was being used as an ...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

A Winter day out

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Got up this morning to a cold day with bright blue sky and winter sun. There had been a frost overnight and by 11 O'clock the temperatur...
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Friday, November 07, 2008

A holiday in France - who is paying?

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In these turbulent times on the world stock markets, where the individual is also feeling the squeeze, I thought that I should write a lit...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Another blog

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Just to say that I have started another blog to run alongside this one. The new blog will cover technical aspects of the Air Creation Tanarg...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

A visit to the AirCreation factory

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We decided that we should go for a short trip (in the car) to Aubenas in the Ardeche region of France. It just so happens that the Aircreati...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Flying on 9/11

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Nearly forgot to post this video. We decided that 9/11 as the Americans call it, (11/9 in the rest of the world) would be a nice flying day ...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

A wedding in Rouffignac

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This post is dedicated to Steve and Karen, and we wish them a long and happy marriage. Steve and Karen are also residents of ...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Flying into the sunset

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Yet another flying video - this must be getting boring! Jude and I went down to the airstrip and took off at 20:00hrs the other evening. We ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

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Yesterday, Sunday 10th August, we decided to fly from our airfield to one at Brantome, about 40 minutes away. We were going with Wim who was...
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Landing in the heat

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On this landing we had just returned from Brantome to the north. As it was the middle of a hot sunny day we had flown at 4000 feet where the...
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Jude discovered that her camera also takes video so she took these short videos on Saturday. Apologies for the lack of music and loads of wi...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

A French picnic at Casillonenes

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We had met Phillipe at a couple of the airfields in the area and he had invited us to a picnic at his home airfield of Castillonnes (LF4722)...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Take off, Tanarg

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Take off, Tanarg Video sent by madmanbob Another take off video
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

More flying with my wife and the camera

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Jude woke me early this morning, 6:30 to be exact, with a cup of tea and said that she wanted to go flying! We took off from our strip at Ce...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Local aerial shots

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This fist picture is our house. It is just to the right of the center of the picture. Just down the road from us is the village of Plazac th...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Terrasson

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Today we woke to what might be the first day of summer here in the Dordogne. We found blue skies and warm weather at 23C, so we decided to t...
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