Summer in Burgundy France and a tour through the vineyards of Côtes de Beaune

I drove up the hill this morning to catch the internet. We're in a really beautiful valley but we don't have any phone reception or just a very little bit on a good day but mostly none. So we have two internet connections in our house. One is through a satellite dish and the other one is a special antenna that we've put high up on our roof and it catches a signal from the villages around us. But on bad days or maybe busy days it just won't work and I wanted to upload a few stories on Instagram. One on my La Source which is the Instagram account for our future bed and breakfast and holiday homes and one on my French vintage style which is the Instagram account for my Brocante shop because that's open this afternoon and I wanted to post a few things and then on a bad day like this it just won't upload. I mean I would have never thought that was possible when I lived in the Netherlands and everything was just so easy and fast and the internet connection was just wonderful. I mean even if you go walking here you don't have internet connection throughout your entire walk. I cannot call a friend for example when I go walking like I did maybe in the Netherlands. But I've also learned that when you're shut off or caught off like that you do find more peace within yourself. So for example taking a walk without calling a friend is a very different experience from taking a walk while discussing your everyday stuff or having a good conversation with friends. So that's the upside of it. The downside is that I sometimes have to drive my car here and make sure that because this is where I have a good reception. So the past month July has been a very busy month in many ways but good busy. I've spent lots of time on a big project for my training business and then we've had so many friends visiting from around the world. We've got friends from Israel, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, the USA and we've spent such nice moments with them and showing them where we live, showing them our region. And we've also taken a couple of day trips as a family. We wanted to stay home this summer because we have so many projects to work on. We've made really good progress again on the tiny house. I helped Olaf for two days. It was exhausting but it was so much fun to do that together. We spend all of our days outside even you know when it's a bit more chilly. It's been a very very strange summer in that respect. It's been chillier than it used to be or it should be. We've had a little bit more rain but we're enjoying every minute of it. It's just, I mean the beauty and the joy and the abundance is in all the simple things. So we're just having a calm and relaxed summer at La Source, our beautiful place. I still pinch myself every day that this is where we live. My friends Doug and Karen from the U.S. were here and we took a very special tour through the wine region of Bonn with Melanie. And as you can see here my husband Olaf followed us to take some shots.