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September is a very busy month for the SW France region.  On Friday 6<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> we visited the medieval Ch\u00e2teau de Varaignes where the famous Turkey Festival takes place each 11<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> November.  The ch\u00e2teau houses a museum of working weaving machines from the 17<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> century and later and we were treated to demonstrations of these by our guide.  Coffee at the communal caf\u00e9 preceded our visit which was then followed by an ap\u00e9ritif in the ch\u00e2teau courtyard and a meeting with the mayor.  A journalist (Monsieur LeCoq would you believe?) also attended and has since published a report in the newspaper Sud Ouest.  The trip was rounded off by an excellent lunch in the Auberge du Ch\u00e2teau.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday 13<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> saw us displaying our cars at the F\u00eate de l’air at Chalais aerodrome.  Sadly there was no actual air show as the insurance costs were prohibitive.  However, we all made the most of it and either enjoyed a picnic in the shade or partook of the lunch provided by the flying club.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weekend of the 19th\/20th saw 15 crews taking part in the Rallye des Clubs on Saturday with several hundred other cars as part of the annual Angoul\u00eame ramparts festival.  We cruised at a mostly relaxed but occasionally vigorous pace through the empty roads of the beautiful Charentais countryside, waving and tooting at the locals who had set up their picnic tables and roadside ap\u00e9ros to watch us go by.  Of course there was the usual 2-hour break at noon for a beer and a delicious leisurely lunch in Jarnac at the Restaurant du Ch\u00e2teau, before we set off on the afternoon leg.  The rally ended with a splendid display of cars at the Espace Carat in Angoul\u00eame and our trusty Jaguars cooled off in the shade, whilst their drivers and passengers “refreshed” themselves in traditional fashion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday 27th we have kindly been invited to join the end of season barbecue of our friends at the Interesting Car and Bike Club, with whom we are developing closer ties and organising some joint events.  This gives us all a wider variety of car tyres to kick and bonnets to lift and brings us a larger circle of like-minded friends to boot.  This rounds off our programme for 2026 and the committee will meet in November to consider next year’s events calendar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two thirsty chaps obscuring a very fine Jaguar 340 at Angoul\u00eame<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September is a very busy month for the SW France region.  On Friday 6th we visited the medieval Ch\u00e2teau de Varaignes where the famous Turkey Festival takes place each 11th November.  The ch\u00e2teau houses a museum of working weaving machines from the 17th century and later and we were treated to demonstrations of these by our guide.  Coffee … Continue reading September 2026<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jecsofa.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}