I enjoyed very much this journey through the Perche: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters (craftsmen, farmers, designers).
There are some interesting aspects of this region: David Commenchal-the photographer of the bocage- ( a very natural territory, the forests, the horses, the hot air balloon flight over the Bellême forest), Jean-Baptiste Olivier-the traveling distiller- ( the apple cider, the alembic , the calvados, Adrien Pioger-the former owner of the alembic-, Jean-François Leroux and his 12 hectares of apple trees), the "Haras National du Pin"-main French stud- and the school of saddlery ( Raphaël Rivard, the one year study of saddle making, the testing of the saddles, Jara-the "Sellerie Percheronne"- and the restoring of carriages), Mortagne-au-Perche and the black pudding ( Jean-Philippe explaining the making of the black pudding, the festival of the black pudding and the international competition for the best black pudding, the Austrian pork butcher Franz), the forest of the Perche (the lumberjack Jean-Baptiste, Christine Sallé making the logging with her Percheron horses, Nicolas Hervet and the furniture design with oak wood, Nicolas Laurain and the forest bathing -in Japanese Shinrin-yoku and in French sylvothérapie-)and the hunt with dogs-in French chasse à courre- in the Bellême forest ( the "suiveurs" in charge of detecting the place where they can find a wild boar, the riders, the dogs and the "suiveurs" try to catch a wild boar without any weapon).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Pierre-Yves Bonnot (Mortagne-au-Perche and the guesthouse "La Maison d'Hector), with Thierry Soret the weathercock maker, with Denis Juste (the flight over the bocage), with Laëtitia Guillemain (the restoration of the Basilica de la Chapelle Montligeon), with Jérôme Forget, Justine Simon Klein and Manon (the pear orchard, the pear harvest and the tasting of the perry-pear cider-), with Alain Charron (the gathering of mushrooms ), with Alban Cristin and Laurence Klein Cristin (the market of Nogent-le-Rotrou and the restored manor) and with Emmanuel Dinnard (the farm of the Michaudière, Camille Choquet and the training of the Percheron horses for equestrian vaulting); nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: David Commenchal-the photographer of the bocage- ( a very natural territory, the forests, the horses, the hot air balloon flight over the Bellême forest), Jean-Baptiste Olivier-the traveling distiller- ( the apple cider, the alembic , the calvados, Adrien Pioger-the former owner of the alembic-, Jean-François Leroux and his 12 hectares of apple trees), the "Haras National du Pin"-main French stud- and the school of saddlery ( Raphaël Rivard, the one year study of saddle making, the testing of the saddles, Jara-the "Sellerie Percheronne"- and the restoring of carriages), Mortagne-au-Perche and the black pudding ( Jean-Philippe explaining the making of the black pudding, the festival of the black pudding and the international competition for the best black pudding, the Austrian pork butcher Franz), the forest of the Perche (the lumberjack Jean-Baptiste, Christine Sallé making the logging with her Percheron horses, Nicolas Hervet and the furniture design with oak wood, Nicolas Laurain and the forest bathing -in Japanese Shinrin-yoku and in French sylvothérapie-)and the hunt with dogs-in French chasse à courre- in the Bellême forest ( the "suiveurs" in charge of detecting the place where they can find a wild boar, the riders, the dogs and the "suiveurs" try to catch a wild boar without any weapon).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Pierre-Yves Bonnot (Mortagne-au-Perche and the guesthouse "La Maison d'Hector), with Thierry Soret the weathercock maker, with Denis Juste (the flight over the bocage), with Laëtitia Guillemain (the restoration of the Basilica de la Chapelle Montligeon), with Jérôme Forget, Justine Simon Klein and Manon (the pear orchard, the pear harvest and the tasting of the perry-pear cider-), with Alain Charron (the gathering of mushrooms ), with Alban Cristin and Laurence Klein Cristin (the market of Nogent-le-Rotrou and the restored manor) and with Emmanuel Dinnard (the farm of the Michaudière, Camille Choquet and the training of the Percheron horses for equestrian vaulting); nice encounters with very kind French men and women.