{"id":7978,"date":"2023-12-17T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:54:41","slug":"sunday-17-december-a-gite-for-all-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-17-december-a-gite-for-all-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 17 December \u2013 A G\u00eete for all Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having promised, at the end of my last blog<\/a>, to write again last Sunday, you may have noticed I didn\u2019t manage to get anything written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say we didn\u2019t do anything, but we certainly didn\u2019t do anywhere near as much as we wanted (needed?) and we were perhaps a bit behind the Christmas schedule we had set for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t manage to get any of the large oak tree cleared from behind Granary (and still haven\u2019t) and we didn\u2019t get any of the decorating for Christmas progressed in the g\u00eetes that we needed to (I made a start in our own home over a couple of days but have not quite finished.)  In fact of the outside work I did, most was for our neighbour when I repaired their fence that our tree had flattened when it fell in Storm Ci\u00e1ran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did manage to get to Quimper with some friends to view their Christmas lights and this year\u2019s Son et Lumiere show on the fa\u00e7ade of the cathedral.  We last did this in 2021 when the theme was \u2018Water\u2019 and I published a video of the show on a blog I wrote at the time<\/a>.  We skipped 2022 (it was probably raining!) but went back this year when the theme was \u2018Earth\u2019, although we couldn\u2019t understand how that translated in the spectacle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quimper is our departmental \u2018capital\u2019 but is a very attractive, compact, little city with lots of charm and character.  Somewhere we\u2019d definitely recommend to guests staying in this part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were fewer Christmas market stalls than we recall from last time but it seems there were more lights in the streets.  The lights were very attractive and we were really pleased to see that they were exactly the same as the ones we have at the front of our house and g\u00eetes (we had asked Locronan\u2019s Mairie where they bought their lights and used the same company so, being \u2018professional\u2019 they should be more robust than previous lights we have bought from shops.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason I couldn\u2019t make a start with the Christmas decorations in Priory was that, last Monday the g\u00eete was being used by an events company for an \u2018inspirational photo shoot\u2019 of a summer wedding.  What else in the second week of December!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The events company is based in Landerneau and is owned, and managed, by the wife of our pool builder who recommended us as an ideal location for a shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day, Priory was taken over by a (small) team of decorators to transform it into the perfect wedding venue with a professionally baked wedding cake, before 2 models arrived to be the \u2018happy couple\u2019 (although the groom doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s the happiest day of his life in some of the pics!) with the photographer and singer for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n

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 We\u2019re not entirely sure what the images will be used for, or where they will be published, but we may get some interest for the g\u00eetes from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as the photography team departed I was able to get in and begin the festive transformation \u2013 which took most of the rest of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is always good to have to work to a deadline and the guests we have in Priory arrived yesterday so it needed to be done.  We are really pleased with how it looks \u2013 and the 4 metre tree was a hit again with our guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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