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Non-official opening Restaurant Château de Barbet

	On Friday 24 March 2006 the totally renovated "Château de Barbet Restaurant" was back in business.  The official opening was in the Easter weekend.  Here we show you a few pictures of the renovated restaurant. We really enjoyed the delicious food.  You see the new chief Paul and his wife at work, and the first guest enjoying their meal.

An improvement of our Parc. We strongly recommend it, both for the food and for the pleasant environment. 

Glass container

After years of half measures our Parc now has its own real glass container, for recycling glass bottles and jars.

In its proper place: next to the rubbish collection place. 

This makes it easier for us to behave well for the environment. We already have, in each villa, a brown container for separating rubbish that can be recycled: paper, plastic bottles, tins, milk cartons, etc. They can be emptied in separate large containers (yellow lid) in the rubbish collection space. It is very important that we all co-operate in this: the sanctions for not separating the rubbish are very heavy. not just money penalties, but eventually also a refusal to collect the rubbish at all. That would be big trouble!

The Parc is looking better than ever, as you can see in these pictures. They were made in october 2005.

December 2005 proved that it can be, as an exception, be very cold in Lombez. Temperatures dropped gradually, in the endd it we had a minimum temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius. Very unusual! It does give us a chance to take very nice pictures, thick fog sometimes, bright sunshine at other days. Still, on the sunny days we were sitting outside in shorts and T-shirts (on a wind-free part of our terrace). And in our villa the heating system makes sure we don't get too cold. 

Now that the Parc exists for several years the birds have got used to being fed by those strange Dutch people. During my first year in Lombez they had no idea that people would do that, but now they know immediately in which garden to find the latest supply of bird seed, bread and apple skins. It is not really necessary to feed them: nature and the farms in the neighborhood have ample food for the birds, but it is a delight to get all kinds of bids in your own garden and to observe them for nearby. 

The only thing we didn't offer the birds was a string of peanuts: we know that would attract the squirrels, which can become very troublesome when getting used to free food supplies.  

Road signs

Summer 2005 Midreth has placed the road signs in the Parc. 
It looks good and clear.

The road from Lombez to Boulogne has been improved in September 2005 with a turn-off facility for the Parc. This way the situation is a lot more safe, because cars, coming from Boulogne, waiting to turn into the Parc can queue in a separate part of the road. The pictures show the work-in-progress.

The entrance of the Parc