So summer is over and, as said in a previous post, many of our holiday home members have left the area. However Burgundy Friends continues with meetings and events throughout autumn and winter. As usual coffee mornings and lunches are arranged continuously in and around Autun. A 10 pin bowling challenge is set for mid October and in season conker competition will be held.

If you would like more information or to join in then why not fill in a membership application for full details, it’s completely free to join us and join in with friends.

During this summer we lunched in Autun at the Promenade after petanque and the Golf Club after putting and the driving range. Both may happen periodically if the weather turns warm again. As well as these 2, we visited:-

• La Bourse
• L’Annexe
• La Table Boheme
• Le Faro
• Le Central

Over the winter, I will drop Le Faro and rotate the other 6 unless we get a chance to putt or play petanque. When we bowl, we can lunch at the Golf Club.

With our summer visitors heading back to their  homes abroad and our numbers reducing, we are going back to meeting once a fortnight for coffee mornings and lunches.

Dave

If you would like to be included in future events and receive notifications and invitations please complete the form at https://burgundyfriends.com/new-member-application/

Today, eleven of us visited a plastics recycling factory in Arnay-le-Duc 😂. It’s where post-consumer waste and old car bumpers go to die. Our tour lasted about an hour and a half with lots of questions as we went round. Not your everyday day out – but it was really interesting 😃😃

Lunch was taken beforehand.

Narrative and photos from Shirley.

More information on the company website at Régéplastic website France

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10 Pin Bowling 6th September 2025

We met at the Bowling at Autun at 10.45am, we had the option of 1 or 2 games. We may have been on 3 lanes, in teams of 4 but we supported as if we were on one lane. The atmosphere was great, we all had fun, there were 2 watching which then became 3. After we went for lunch at the golf club, where we were joined by Eva for a short while, all were pleased to see her. We stretched out lunch to over two hours with great banter and good food. Hopefully we will repeat this during the winter months.

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Garden party August 2025
The weather was kind to us for our annual garden party. It was a lovely time with plenty of food provided by everyone. The setting was lovely, the ambience was great. Everyone had a wonderful time.

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Hello, everyone,

Just to bring you up to date with our BF coffee morning yesterday, which was held at Le Grand Café in Autun. Some nice surprises – three new people came to join us! Plus one member who was last spotted in the late summer of 2022. There were 12 of us in all, battling with the acoustics of the café, which are a bit difficult for big groups. Still, we all had a great time chatting to new and old members. Golf seems to be a popular topic, so if anyone out there wants to play, we have a few people in the group who’d be interested.

Hello, everyone,

Yesterday (Friday 9 February) we had yet another successful coffee/ lunch gathering, this time at The New St George in Autun; 13 BF members came for coffee, and 11 stayed for lunch. We have three new members, and one of them, Daniella, joined us for pre-lunch coffee.

With worries about the weather, the Annual Burgundy Friends Garden Party was successfully staged in the afternoon of 27th August 2023.

Despite confusion over the whereabouts of the marquee, the weather was kind and everyone brought plates to share, which were enjoyed by all as can be seen.

A little later than hoped by our international members who had sadly gone home to their respective countries, nonetheless it was held, the first since Covid.

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