Have you ever been anywhere and thought this is just perfect, in our case the village was the very beautiful Saint-Fargeau, A Quintessential French Village. It was just beautiful, exactly how you would imagine a French village to be in a perfect world.
Full of smiling faces, buildings that you just want to stop and staudy, spend ages taking in every beautiful detail. Laced with streams that pop up at intervals throughout the village. Paved with cobble stones, and buildings dressed with shutters with little heart cut outs.
Honestly, I felt like I was living in the setting of Beauty and the Beast. My favourite ever Disney film. But Saint-Fargeau, has more than Disney like qualities, it is real and beautiful. And just the simple things make it even more beautiful, our French is poor, almost non-existent much to our shame. Yet the locals made every effort to help us order food, navigate the village, even buying a cork screw in the supermarket.
The kindness that the people of this beautiful village showed towards our family during our stay was the real core of the beauty of this stunning village. Â Yes, the beauty was there to see, the visual beauty is everywhere, but it was also in the heart and soul of the village and in its people. And that will always stay with us.
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Such a pretty village even in the rain
Fiona it was stunning, I could shop looking around and taking photos x
What a beautiful village – it looks like a lovely place to explore and so glad to hear that the people who lived there were so friendly too 🙂
Thank Louise, it was such a lovely little Village x
So very Gallic! Just as old English villages have a very particular look and feel, I do love old French towns too. You just know from the architectural look and feel exactly where you are.
Yes Tim you do, it was just picture perfect, so unspoilt and pretty x
That whole village looks like a wonderful place. It’s so beautiful and I just want to jump in those pictures so I can explore the village myself.
Tammy it really is worth baking the trip to visit it is stunning x
Such a pretty village and you take beautiful photos too.
Ah thank you Melody, to be honest its easy with a subject such as this x
Loving all your French posts.
Ah thank you Brooke, it was the most incredible trip, you know the sort of place you want to share with the world x
It looks a perfect village to enjoy, beautiful photos and buildings x
It is Cathy, picture perfect, and idyllic we all loved it there x
Such a typical french village – pretty and empty! It looks like you had a lot of rain with that stream raging through, I bet it’s normally a quiet little trickle.
We had so much rain Phoebe but it never affected our trip, yes it would have been perfect if all the days were hot and sunny but we still fell in love with the region x
How perfect, I love exploring villages when abroad
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Same here Darren is such a huge part of traveling for us x
Lovely photos, I love wandering round unfamiliar towns and villages.
#MySundayPhoto
Me too Catherine it makes me so happy strolling round towns and villages taking photos x
Its so breathtakingly pretty and I think I’d love to just stand there too and take it all in. I’ve been to Paris a couple of times but never to a French village like that.
Oh Tas I loved village life in France, it was just breathtaking, you just wanted to chill it was that sort of environment x
Oh wow! What a pretty village….Everything is just gorgeous.
Kim it really was so gorgeous and pretty x
How lovely you found some “real” France – so pretty albeit a bit wet.
Oh it was so wet Rosie but we still loved it x
Imagine living in a place as beautiful as this. Looks such a chilled out place Sarah, and I love all your pictures capturing how stunning it is x
Thanks Tracey, it was idyllic we just loved it so much x
What a beautiful place. It looks like a fairy story
Cat x
It was Cat, just so very pretty x
It looks gorgeous. You can’t beat a proper French village! We’ve found a few recently too, and it’s fun seeking them out, don’t you think? #MySundayPhoto
Lovely lovely details captured! #mysundayphoto
Thank you Merlinda, I hope you are feeling better lovely x