Le Gossip

You will no doubt have realised from our Blog that life in France is different from life in the UK but basically things are very similar. However I suspect that the media would have a field day if the Mayor of a town was arrested. Well it did make the local paper, which is a daily but incredibly "parish pump" as my Dad would say.

For the past 18 months there have been protests in Gourdon because the train operator has cancelled a lot of trains stopping at Gourdon and Souillac. The demonstrations have been typically french; lots of people taking direct action - like blocking the line! Last week however things took an incredible turn and the Gendarmes had had enough and ended up arresting three local Mayors including ours. He is a very nice gentlemen in his 70s but is up before the Magistrate soon. We were pleased to see that there was another protest last night but that Mr Cocula behaved himself this time.

Nothing special to report with us; still tiling the kitchen floor!!!!!