Outside of Le Moulin and our animals, one of our great passions is music. We play Irish and French traditional music and have been fortunate enough to find f...

10 things to do around the little village of Pensol in Perigord Vert, Limousin, France. Market towns, chateaux, swimming lakes and walks.

The roads of the Limousin around Pensol are a cyclist's paradise. Well maintained and virtually traffic free.

We're feeling a bit glum and at a loose end here at the mill. Our last guests of the main season left the other day, and though we have lots to do we feel a ...

It's been a while since the last blog, and I'm pleased to say that is because we have been extremely busy. Summer 2019 was when Le Moulin de Pensol, as a bus...

This blog is about cheese. Just kidding, it's not of course, it's about donkeys. Because EVERYTHING is now about donkeys. Because we now have three donkeys. ...

Sometimes it helps to have a deadline. As you will have seen from Facebook, we have been working on our new chambre d'hôtes (B&B rooms) throughout the winte...

For our blog this month I wanted to give a proper send-off to Jasper – a much missed member of the team. He was put to sleep on January 12th aged only nine, ...

We decided to do some training yesterday with one of our dogs, Wolfie. Wolfie looks like, as his name suggests, a scrawny wolf who has been put through a ho...

I made a batch of mince pies yesterday. This involved buying some mincemeat from the humiliating “English section” of the supermarket which I normally never ...

First some sad news. My daughter has moved back to the UK to live with her father. She found it very hard to settle in France, I can only imagine what being ...

Yes winter is definitely coming. I have been slightly panicking for the last few months as I have watched our neighbours beautiful wood piles grow all around...

A couple of friends who booked with us over the summer introduced me to the concept of wild swimming. The first was a marathon runner who did not seem to know...

Why take your dog on holiday with you? Anyone who has ever had to look into a pair of much-loved brown eyes and then walk away as you leave them behind in...

If you live in England, The Netherlands, Belgium or France, It will not have escaped your notice that it has been a little warm lately! This has lead to us i...

So, from a non-native to something European and more familiar -the Small Leaved Lime or Little Leaved Linden (Tilia Cordata). In the UK it is associated with...

Some of you will now that we kept bees back in England and that we want to start beekeeping again here too. So I have been keeping an eye out on potential fo...

We've been running a Facebook competition for the past week. The prize was a 3 night stay in on of our 2 person gites. We had 162 people enter the competiti...

Letter to Viz comic “My husband heard somewhere that planning a holiday was half the fun. So this year we planned two holidays and didn’t go on either of the...

The war is everywhere in France. And by "the war" I mean World War 2. From the countless road names like "Rue de la Resistance" to the many memorial days -...