A While back I posted this article about the traditional festival in Cales, a village close to Chateau Lalinde. As it is time again for the feasts and festivals to start soon, and as the annual Felibree is happening in Beaumont this year -- another lovely bastide town close to Lalinde, I thought I would refresh your memory on some of the many wonderful reasons why life in this part of the world is such a pleasure.
Driving into the hills this afternoon, I visited the biennial celebration of traditional arts and crafts in the tiny hamlet of Cales. Lace making, pewter work, flint stone tools, paper making, pottery, basket weaving, musical instruments, farming, honey cultivation, porcelain painting, corn threshing, wood carving, vat making, wine making, (the best crepes in the world ever!) cider and sausages, ironmongery, --- you name the art or craft, and there was someone there demonstrating it. The streets of the hamlet were decked out in all its finery -- a million intricate and detailed paper flowers adorned the buildings and formed blazingly colourful vaulted ceilings above. Again the powerfully strong Perigourdine music echoed through the hills and the dancers seem to be tireless in their whirls and twirls and complicated steps -- executed in their beautiful traditional costumes and their cumbersome clogs seeming to take on the lightness of silk ballet shoes.
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