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Encore Avec Le Coq!

You would imagine that if you made the transition from a wee-bump in the French road, a village containing perhaps 200 people, to a regional town complete with restaurants, shopping, and traffic that certain brain-grinding rural sounds would not follow you. Not necessarily!
 

The back garden where Le Coq lurks amongst his feathered friends


 
All throughout the day during our short period of residence in Engomer, I heard the rooster — known locally as Le Coq — crowing repeatedly no matter what the hour. He was definitely not just a morning sort of fellow, but he did crack the peace and quiet of the early hours from about 5 AM onward. Unless I had the double-glazed windows shut tight and I was in one of the back rooms of the large house that we temporarily lived in, his incessant crowing filled the air.

Into St. Girons we moved a month and a half ago — but somehow the sound followed us. Know why?

At the bottom of the garden, hidden discretely behind a curtain of green vine-draped fencing off in the distance of that photo above, one of the neighbours has a garden that backs directly onto ours. Not only do these town dwellers have another noisy rooster lurking there, they also have chickens which softly cluck,cluck, cluck all day and several truly large geese which flap and squawk rather loudly.

Ah well — I should have remembered that no place in France outside of the major metro areas is ever really that far from the rural way of life. Thus in our own lives — it’s encore avec le coq!

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