The world
in a hamlet, the hamlet is the world.
Little by
little I’m starting to get used to writing this blog. I’m still searching for
the best way of reflecting on my life in France but there’s only one way to find
out, just do it!
As I decided
to write this blog in English, I immediately knew this would be a handicap as
it isn’t my mother tongue. But I wanted to share the news with as many people
as possible. The solution was found in a “ghost reader”, who is preventing me
from making too many mistakes. A lovely person I’ve not met (yet) but who was a guest at Villa Dæsch last
season. Thanks to her, you’re able to read this in proper English. Susan, I
thank you for doing this for me.
Living in Gordes
is living with the tourist season, crowded in summer and calm in winter. Our
little hamlet, however, is tucked away from such popular hot spots as Fontaine
de Vaucluse, Gordes and Oppède le Vieux and is cherished by its inhabitants and
guests. It’s a small world in Les Martins with the honey -producing family, who
has been living in the hamlet for centuries, and the international community
coming from Britain, Belgium, Canada, Germany and the United States and of
course us coming from The Netherlands.
Some of them are making their living in France, others are using the
house for holidays and receiving friends. We’re sort of balancing in between.
We’re using Villa Dæsch to welcome friends and family
throughout the year. But we’re also renting the place out to those who want to
get to know this part of the world.
In the past
years we have welcomed guests from all over the world. Reading the accounts of their
experiences and remarks in our guestbook always makes me smile. They are
describing the exact feelings I had when I first visited this beautiful part of
the world.
So whether
we are different in skin or language, we share and have in common the pleasure
of the beauty of life in a French hamlet, where there’s time to close the gate
and avoid the rat race for a while.
A bientôt!
Gordes at
the end of the afternoon, the perfect moment.
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