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    <title><![CDATA[Granny visits over Swiss National Day]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:00:42 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home around 11h20 on 31 Aug deciding to take a long lunch break to get to the house rather than attempt it in the evening is it was the eve of 01 Aug, Swiss National Day and the weekend where the whole on France seems to start their hols. Traffic,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another WFsecondHome Friday ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:57:59 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home at 16h on Thursday 17 July and hit a little traffic in Bellegarde and arrived here around 18h20. All was ok and not too many more weeds as it has been so hot. Whilst eating dinner out the front we noticed that M. G has added the anti rongeur... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Work from (second) home]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:23:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home after work on Thursday 12 June and after the usual slow traffic to Bellegarde the rest of the drive was clear. It took nearly two and half hours so we got to the house just before 19h. All was fine - more weeds. It has been really hot the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Longer weekend feeling]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:03:31 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home after work on Thursday 24 April as we had asked M. A the plasterer to meet us on Friday. The drive was clear after some traffic entering Bellegarde as is the norm. We arrived at the house just before 19h and all was ok. J started attacking... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spring 2025]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 07:57:37 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The first visit of 2025 happened on 21 March. We arrived just after 19h after hitting a lot of traffic in Bellegarde. Last year we only put the boiler on after Xmas as we were busy and it was not too cold. Everything seemed fine which is always a relief.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[August (work) visit ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:15:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home on Thurs 16 Aug after work to spend a few days at the house since our summer holiday plans for the German baltic coast had been thwarted by Covid and cancelled planes. We arrived here at 19h30 ish and since we have not been for 4 months there... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Randonée du Désert 2024]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:52:41 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We set off at precisely 09h36 on Saturday 20 April with A’s friend N with us. After a really hot week last weekend it has gone very cold down to 1° some mornings and barely 10° in the afternoons. We made good progress and reached the house in the usual... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easter 2024 and Oven arrival]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:36:02 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home on Thursday after work around 17h. We hit traffic at the Collonges roundabout which added another 30 mins getting onto the motorway- even Bellegarde was not that bad. We came off at Macon after having to be careful of two bunnies on the hard... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spring 2024]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:45:14 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[J and I left for the house on Sat 10 March. We hit a traffic jam as soon as we got on the motorway and remembered that it was the end of the Paris holidays so they were all headed home. It added about 30 mins to the whole trip. We arrived just after 12h.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Winter switch on]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:31:22 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A and I went on a round trip to the house on Sunday 26 Nov to switch the boiler on. We are quite busy thereafter so it seemed liked the best time even though the weather is quite mild so far. We have had a lot of rain but not much frost although that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jeune Genevois 2023]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:19:30 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home on Weds after work and after a stop for dinner at the Ponte Loco we arrived at the house around 20h45. It’s already getting quite dark by 20h30 now. We are having a late heatwave - less intense than a few weeks ago but for early Sept over... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Brief stay over, Beaune and Précy sous Thil]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:09:34 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home early after work on 11 Aug and stopped in Cluny for pizzas from the Calabrese. They were doing take out only but we could eat them on their terrace so we did. Really good pizzas.
Arrived at the house and all seemed ok. J pulled up some weeds... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Weekend de Pentecôte 2023]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 19:10:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home on a warm and sunny Saturday morning. It has been quite a cool spring and from the plants in my garden I think we are three weeks behind the past two years. We decided to stop in Macon and managed to find a parking space right outside the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easter weekend ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:23:53 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home at 17h10 on the Thursday before Good Friday but it took us over 3 hours to get here as first there was loads of traffic getting into Bellegarde and then we were down to one lane at the first motorway tunnel. At least the weather was nice... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[First visit of 2023]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:34:22 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[So winter must be over as the Rouches went to the house for the first time this year. We are like the storks who can be seen in the fields this time of year. We left just after 17h and hit some traffic as always going into Bellegarde but managed to make... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Winter switch on]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:15:57 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[J and I drove to St André on Sunday 04 Dec to switch the boiler on. We had a very mild October and even November was mild but wet. Now in December the temperature is starting to descend and we have so much coming up over the next few weeks this was the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jeune Genevois ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:48:14 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since the second Thursday in September is a day off in Geneva and A’s school also closes on the Friday we decided to take the Friday off too and come to the house. We brought A’s friend Ruth. We hit a traffic jam just around Nantua as they put the motorway... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Canicule July 2022]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:16:55 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We have been having some very hot weather and not just a day or two like in the UK it has been several weeks of over 30°C. Luckily the house stays quite cool as it has thick stone walls and when we arrived on Friday 22 July it was a cool 24°C unlike the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsin Rouche]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Grandma and Grampa’s first visit in almost 4 years!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2022 18:24:17 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left on Friday 13 May just before 17h and managed to get to St. André around 19h15 which was good time given that there was traffic into Bellegarde. Grandma and Grampa have not been in almost 4 years. When we arrived J was eager to see the work that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easter weekend ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:43:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Left home around 17h30 on 14 April and hit traffic into Bellegarde so our trip took 2hours 30 and we arrived just before 20h. All seemed to be ok except that the boiler would not start. It clicked as though it was trying to start but then it never did.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsin Rouche]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Getting ready for another winter]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://saintandreledesert.over-blog.com/2021/11/getting-ready-for-another-winter.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:45:06 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[J and I decided to pop to Saint André on 13 November as the weather is starting to get cold and the next few weekends are very busy. We left around 09h30 and did the trip in 2hours 5mins which is the best it gets and the roads were quiet. All was ok at... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsin Rouche]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Holmer visit]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:34:59 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Tom and Fiona were passing through and staying at St André so we decided to join them for a few nights as we have not seen them for a long time due to the pandemic. We left on Thursday after J finished work and arrived just before 19h30. We sat out the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Miu Miu comes to stay]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:08:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left home around 09h15 just J and I and for the first time Miu Miu (A was spending t two weeks at Granny’s). She is 18 years old and has never liked car journeys. We did well until Bellegarde when she threw up. We were well prepared with wipes but... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ascension with the Houdots]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 22:59:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We left Ferney after work on Weds 12 May and ran into traffic entering into Bellegarde so it took us longer than usual. We ended up arriving half an hour after the curfew which is still 19h but we did not get caught. All seemed ok at the house and we... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easter weekend 2021]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:25:23 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We arrived at the house on Thurs 01 April at 15h. This time we were coming from the north as we had spent 4 nights with Granny in Amboise. We were lucky with the timing as last night Macron announced another lockdown and from Sat 19h we will again not... ]]></description>
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