Welcome to my blog! Saulieu is a town about 6 miles from my village. It's a wonderful market town and is also in the Morvan. It's famous for Francois Pompon Sculptor, and the 3 star Michelin hotel and restaurant of Bernard Loiseau. The Morvan natural park covers 430,000 acres. Morvan means Black Mountain in Celtic. It's known for it's forest which over the centuries supplied the rest of France with firewood. The women became wet nurses for wealth Paris families and government orphanages. In the second world war it became a hide out for the Resistance, as it was so harsh and inaccessible. So people have lived a self sufficient life for centuries here in the Morvan. The wine growers in the Cote deOr have a saying "No good wind and no good people come out of the Morvan" but I have meet creative, successful,confident, ambitious,curious, vulnerable, spiritual, sensitive, kind and very self reliant Morvan Ladies. There is also another French saying, which I has become my motto. "Petit a petit l'oiseau fait son nid" translated "little by little the bird builds it's nest". I am one of many strong women, who have chosen to have an adventure in mid life, here in the Morvan.
