The cuckoo has said it. 'SPRING HAS ARRIVED.'

OK for the last seven days we have had temperatures in excess of 18 degrees... does that mean Spring has most definitely arrived?

Today has been fabulously warm and we have just met up with Lisette and her two children and two dogs for a walk around the edge of Reminiac.

The rape seed is in full flower and as we walked through a track between two rape seed fields the smell is quite intoxicating.

Suddenly she grasped my arm. 'Ecoute.'

Yes, I could hear the cuckoo as well.

She rummaged desperately in her pockets... 'We need a 'piece d'or', you must always make a wish when you hear the first cuckoo.'

We didn't have a coin but we made a wish anyway !!.

This video was done several years ago of the 'boucle de Reminiac', but nothing much changes and it shows one of our favourite walks around Reminiac.

Reminiac, Southern Brittany