Visitors
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Our first visitor was Anna Littlejohns my daughter in October 2019 for a weekend
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This was followed by Juan Pretorius, Tercia's son over Christmas 2019
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Sam my son joined us for the New Year 2020
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Unfortunately Jacqu, Tercia's other son was unable
to come at Easter 2021 because of Covid.
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​​​​We welcomed Sam and Anna plus friends for along weekend in July 2020
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In July 2020 Francoise and Alastair were spending the month touring France and seeing relatives . They also popped in for a week which combined fun with severe "jardining"
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Francoise and Alastair returned in July 2021 for another short stay - we celebrated July 14th together
My daughter Anna and her partner Alex joined us for two weeks in August 2021. It was the time of the local festivals and so we has "wine tasting", "moules et frites" and music and dancing all 50 yards from the house in the "Barrys" in Puymeras. Many new recipes were tried and the tennis court was also re-opened. Mont Ventoux was once more ascended.
Sam and Anna G came to join us for 5 days in September and after 2 days cycling we tried and ascended Ventoux from the Bedoin side in record time . We celebrated In Girocedre after touring the Vacqueyas wine region which resulted in a few purchases.
Summer 2021 saw Puymeras beginning to get back to normal after the start of Covid 18 months earlier. Jenny and Steve returned after an absence of 2 years and we celebrated with a Pizza at Barrys
Summer 2022 we were visited by Alec and Alice. Alec has been a colleague and friend for many years. I have followed his career with great interest and he now a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at KUMEC - the King's Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community, in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London. Alice has just started a PhD in oncology - looking at the experiences of patients suffering with throat cancer
One of the joys of Puymeras is to have "aperos" with our Dutch neighbour Abel Cahen
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Cahen
and Sonja Barend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Barend
Abel was an architect with responsibility for many notable buildings and Sonja was a political journalist with her own television programme
Jacqu and Leah joined us for a late festive break on the 2nd January 2023. Strikes and travel restrictions meant a 2 day journey to get here from Lincoln. But a Beer at Barrys made it all worth it. Juan then joined us for an action packed week. There are more pictures on the year 2023 page where the amazing meals are shown. The jardin page shows how much digging, tree cutting and log splitting was done. The memory video is below
Sam, Anna and Alex came to Puymeras on the 3rd July 2023 to celebrate Anna's 30th Birthday and also to give Alex a chance to become a member of the Club Cingles (cycle up Mont Ventoux 3 times in 24 hours). This they did on Wednesday 5th July. Amanda, Sam and Anna's mother joined us for the birthday festivities over the Thursday and Friday. Alex and Sam and Amanda left for the UK on the Saturday. Anna stayed a further 5 days as study leave. All the action can be seen on the 2023, Jardin and Cycling pages.
