Le Couvent Diary

Yep, that's me. But these aren't words you can use against my luscious new Mac laptop and the all new and shiny Mac Leopard operating system. Before I was  a B&B landlady in the south of France I had a computer company in England which built PCs for businesses and installed networks. We were very good at it, but it was tricky and stressful. I suppose, if one is going to fix computers you may as well choose the ones that go wrong, i.e. anything Microsoft. 

All was going well with Ali's trip to Australia to see her family until she reached the BA check-in desk. Somewhere between leaving Eurostar and arriving in Heathrow Ali misplaced her passport. Lost, nicked? We may never know. Either way she was about to have to forgo her entire trip. Darling BA moved her ticket on 24 hours with the words 'it's a pity as we were about to give you a complimentary upgrade to First Class' - (worth having - we came back that way last year). Still, at least the ticket wasn't lost.

It's the 25th September and 25 degrees. The water's glacial, but we and the hardier guests are still managing to squeeze in a few lengths. Now that's about ten days longer than most summers so we're thrilled.

With just five days to go until we close for the winter we're thinking back on all the lovely guests we've had staying this summer. Far fewer were house-hunting. Many more were simply enjoying all the fantastic things the Languedoc has to offer. Ali and I have been horribly jealous of our guests' day trips to interesting places, so this winter we're going to visit them all ourselves. It's hard to believe that we've lived here about five years, but have yet to see all the major places of interest. Although Le Couvent will be closed until 1 May 2008 we're going to continue the blog all winter. We hope to be able to give you lots of information so you can plan next year's holidays here. Some weeks are already fully booked by the forward thinkers (and stoolball players!) so start planning.