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 Before we left for France, we enjoyed the Christmas market in Winchester. |
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 The river in Vouvant, candied fruits and fragrant bookseller in Challans |
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 The Cour du Miracle in Vouvant |
 A lit candle in a secret grotto |
 The river in Vouvant |
 Somewhat creepy Santas hanging from ladders were ubiquitous in France. |
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 There was a display of fifty Christmas manger scenes from around the world, displayed in the cathedral in Vouvant. |
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 The silver ornament we bought in Naples |
 An elf we bought in Winchester See our whole collection HERE. |
 Our souvenir from Sorrento |
 We returned to a very different L'Aubonniere from the summer. |
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 In the summer, we walked across this bridge. This time, I fell in! Click HERE to see this same spot on our summer trip. |
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 I bought new Eden Park socks in Luçon, after my feet got soaked in the River Yon. Watching Rudolph and the view from the kitchen. |
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  Christmas morning: opening stockings and walking to the windmills in Mouilleron |
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 A new food for us was hibiscus flowers, which blossomed in our glass of champagne. |
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 Christmas dinner was Delia's duck and cherry sauce. We later opened gifts by the fire. |
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 A frosty holiday morning |
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 Our Christmas haul. |
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 Testing my new zoom lens |
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 Riding Santa's sleigh in Fontenay-le-Comte and sharpening a Bic pen on a neolithic sharpening stone |
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 We found a still, silent lake at an abandoned quartz quarry. |
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 Quartz quarry would score very well in Scrabble. We enjoyed the reflections on the water. |
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 George made crumpets from Marcus "Hairy Arms" Wareing's new cookbook. We heard a trumpet recital at the church in Mouilleron (not pictured). |
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 This, in fact, is the cathedral in Poitiers. Most everything else was closed the Monday we were there. |
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 We follwed brown signs to the Nombril du Monde and weren't disappointed by the mysterious treasure hunt. The rainbow huts are elsewhere. |
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 There were clues hidden in red filing cabinets along the road to the village church. A great art installation, even if we didn't understand it. |
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 Mysteries of the Nombril du Monde. And a cute shopper in Bressuire. |
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 On New Year's Eve, we went to Futuroscope. |
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 In one of the "rides" we could hold animated creatures on our special pads. They obviously can't be photographed (far left). |
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 On our final full day, we went sightseeing in Fontenay-le-Comte. The middle picture is New Year's Eve. |
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 The fountain after which Fontenay is named |
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| georgenick.co.uk Click HERE to see our past Christmases and HERE to see our past trip to the Vendee  
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