News from Angel Traders

Hello to everybody,

Well summer has arrived and we are writing to you all to keep you updated with what we are up to.

This week we are going to Eymet on a road trip. Yes Thelma and Louise are back in action!!. We will be armed with publicity and a tent!!. Should be interesting as Melanie has never been camping before. It will be a whole new experience for her.



Our main reason for the trip is to increase the foot fall for each event, reaching out to everybody that needs the Trade/Service that you can offer.

To enable us to keep the stand prices reasonable we are asking for your help too by contacting all of your contacts and letting them know about each event. Posters and invitations are available on request.

Just to let you all know that angloinfo.com are currently running a "Whats On Guide" advert about the event and all exhibitors will be added to the list and gain free extra publicity. Angloinfo.com also have a classified advert running and a flash banner to follow on the forum page. The Connexion newspaper and the Dordogne Advertiser are also advertising our event. The Dordogne-on-line website have kindly advertised our event together with the news letters from Kevin at Group 47 and Anne Archibald from 1624 has agreed to work her magic. If you look at www.eymetguide.com you will see us on the front page. Our mission this week is to blitz the southern part of the Dordogne with bright large posters in all the local towns and villages around Eymet.

We want our events not to be just popular with the exhibitors but with visitors too.

Stands are selling very well and we have many types of exhibitors but if you haven't already booked then hurry as we can only accept a small amount of the same trades to make each show interesting for the visitors.

For the fair in Eymet, Halo Financial will be sponsoring the after show cheese and wine get together so that in its self is a reason to come!!!.

Until next time.



Amanda and Melanie
(Thelma and Louise)

Day One - Eymet Road Trip

Well we started our trip from Bressuire at 11am. After two hours we realized that we could visit Nico the Wine man from Bordeaux. We gave him a quick call and told him that we would be there in one hour. The weather was really hot and the thought of a nice cold glass of white wine seemed perfect. Well we arrived at his estate, it is so beautiful. He was by himself fixing his tractor.

He welcomed us by saying "have you had something to eat?"

We were thinking wow lunch and wine how perfect was that, we were so wrong I asked him what have you got

he said "nothing I was just asking".

He then offered us a glass of water as he had no cold white wine. Stunned with amazement we said nothing while he gave us a tour of his vineyard. It was great to see him and he said that he is looking forward to Eymet. We got back in the car at 4pm and headed to Bergerac as we had arranged to meet Albert from Aquitiane Langue at 6pm. We asked for directions before leaving but Albert said it's easy to find.
Oh right we ended up in the middle of town at the office du tourism who we must say were so helpful and fluent In English.
We followed directions and managed to get lost again and telephoned Albert. Melanie told me to pull over and turn around, just as I did that we saw the sign for Albert's school, how spooky was that!.
As we drove down the long drive we could see the Chateau in the distance and Albert had come to greet us.
Melanie said " I bet he has got some wine."

Hello girls he said "I bet you would love a nice cup of tea?". We were beginning to wonder if we were in France at all !.
He took us to his classrooms and we had a great chat and a cup of tea. Time was now ticking by and we asked him to reserve the campsite in Eymet. We had asked Albert if he wanted to join us for dinner so this meant we had one hour to get to Eymet and put up our tent. It was still 25 degrees. We found the campsite which is beautiful and started to erect the tent.
All was going well.
I have got to mention before leaving for our trip I bought two new double beds to make the camping trip a nicer experience for Melanie. Anyway the tent was up, inner bedrooms were up ,beds were blown up but they were too big to fit in the compartments. Sweltering hot and horrified Melanie had to open a bottle of fizz which had been kept nicely chilled. We quickly threw our beds in loose, hung up our Christmas lights, plugged our electric in and off we went to find Albert. We were just arriving when we saw him and we all went to a fantastic pizza restaurant. First thing ordered was a huge carafe of chilled Rose wine.

Ah perfect.

We laughed all night exchanging funny stories. Albert walked us back to the campsite and stayed for a hot chocolate. With Albert leaving, Melanie was horrified at the thought of camping and being exposed without an inner tent to sleep in. We finally fell asleep at 12.30 ish and woke at 6am feeling damp and with ear ache from the birds that were singing so loud. Melanie mumbled "what time is it?, I am wet, cold and I've been bitten". Her hand was so swollen.
I was beginning to think that maybe camping wasn't her thing!.
Todays plan is to buy smaller beds to get the inner tents up. This should stop the creepy crawlies and keep the beds dryer!. I hope this will work otherwise it will be the end to a beautiful friendship LOL .
Melanie has been for a run & now she is having a shower. I will take a shower and before it gets too hot we are going to blitz Dordogne with posters.
Until next time ...

Amanda and Melanie

Day Two Eymet Road Trip.....

Day two,
We went out early and put flash posters on two of the entrances into Eymet and pasted up loads of posters on bill boards. We bought two new single beds hoping for a better night sleep and then went to get something for the bite on Melanie's hand.
The Market was great and many shops have taken our posters to display in their windows. The atmosphere was great and people were very interested to hear about the fair. We are going back to a translator who wants to sign up for the show and she has other services that could be interested. We had lunch and received a call from our mentor Martin Swanson from AngloInfo.com who wanted to know how it was all going and as per normal gave us some good advice. We went back to the campsite and held a business meeting in the chateux gardens with a glass of wine. Once we had planned what to do next we went and bought fish and chips and ate them outside under the stars!!. Must add Melanie really hates camping but our friendship is still quite strong LOL .
So it was an early night as we received an invitation to dinner Friday night from Albert the French teacher.
Well we woke up at 6am again Melanie has a bad back as her new bed had deflated and she went for a run but still a little moody and she keeps saying that she hates camping. I don't understand why !!. To help ease her moods I cooked eggs and bacon as you can see from the picture she is not a happy camper ha ha.
We have a very busy day today meeting lots of people so we must go now but keep watching for more interesting pics to follow.

Day Three - Eymet Road Trip.......

Let's just say that today we have woken up in a different location. I will now explain how we got here!.
After Melanie's bad nights sleep she didn't stop moaning she was phoning and texting everybody windging even to her brother in Australia. I am such a positive person and she was making me hate camping!. We had decided to go and see Paul from Eymet immobilier and to get a photo of his work place which we did and what a place it is. Colourful photo's of properties surround the shop with elegant arm chairs and plumped cushions in every corner.
We continued to visit a few more people in the town and then we went to see the Mairie to see if we could visit the hall. We were asked to go out the back to another office and we arranged a rendezvous for the afternoon. We said good and I said that we would see the lady at the Salle des fetes no she replied at the Salle Polyvalent. Horror hit me as we have just had 500 posters printed with Salle des fetes printed. What to do next?. We had spent all day Thursday putting up posters and handing out leaflets in Eymet and what with the moaning of Melanie I just wanted to scream. Focus, focus, focus I kept telling myself and decided to ring my husband Rob. I asked him to change all of the originals to correct the name and he found a printers in Bergerac that could print another 500 copies. Our next step was to ring Albert at the Language school to see if Rob could send by email the amended poster. "Yes" he replied "no problem". When we found him I was too stressed for words and Melanie was still repeating " I hate camping". We all went for a sandwich and ate in the grounds of the language school Chateau. Got to admit I did chill for a bit at this point. After Albert showed us where the printers were off we went. While I was making the copies Melanie looked a cross and said "shall I ring that nice lady who has a mobile home and see if we can stay there tonight". With heat rising from the photocopier and it being about 28 degrees outside I replied "do what you want but we are going to Alberts for dinner and the tent will take a while to pack away"!. In a flash the mobile home was booked. A smile appeared across Melanie's face like an uncontrolled bush fire. She was already dreaming of swimming in the beautiful pool. Quickly finishing our printing we realized that we had 15 minutes to reach Eymet to see the Salle. We got there and all was okay but we still had two meetings in Eymet one with the Tandoori and one with a Satellite company and to get the tent down. We had our meetings and two stands were booked. We then went back to the tent. We texted Albert and asked him to bring the food and we would prepare dinner at our new location.
Well the mighty erection took seconds to come down it was the fastest I had seen Melanie move in three days . Everything put very neatly in the back of my car. It now means of course that we need to stay another day to put the new posters up.
Arriving in our new location for 6pm and expecting Albert sometime after 7pm Melanie suggested going for a swim. She almost skipped there with joy. Look at her in the pool she was loving it!!.
After returning from the pool Melanie prepared a salad and I went to light the BBQ. Shiney bright utensils I thought how wonderful. I started to light it and dropped the spatular which had a very sharpe edge and it sliced my finger. I can't look a blood by the way I tend to fall in a heap!!. Melanie reached for our new Lidl first aid kit in the back if the car and ran to get some cream. Meanwhile not looking at my cut finger holding my arm away Albert arrived wondering what I was doing. Melanie did come back not sure if she might of grabbed a swim as I was bleeding to death and it was quite some time before she returned. I think she was getting me back for taking her camping LOL!!.
Well Albert did us proud, we had food fit for a king and queen. We had so much to eat and drink and laughed all night exchanging more funny stories. We really needed that after the day we had had.
The evening finished at midnight and we waved our friend goodbye.
Today Saturday is going to be really busy replacing all of our posters and visiting all the towns. Melanie has just woken up happy with her new location. Thank goodness for that eh!!.

Until next time

Amanda and Melanie