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D&S Renovation Expert

Extensive experience in building and renovating property in South West France. Work includes loft conversions, roofing, fitting kitchens and bathrooms, installing central heating and septic tanks, wiring, windows and doors. Serving the Eymet area. Find out more...

Boucara Chauffage Plomberie

Plumbing and heating engineers for bathroom and pipe work installations (plumbing, irrigation, drainage, swimming pools), oil, gas and alternative energy installations. Qualigaz certified. Call Morris Whitehead in St-Gery near Mussidan, Dordogne (24) Find out more...

Renovations 24 Dordogne

Building and renovation company based in the Dordogne between Riberac and Perigueux. A friendly and efficient multilingual company offering all services. Call us for a friendly chat or visit our website for more information. Find out more...

Dordogne Local Reference INFOrmation

Petanque

Petanque: the great game of boules - pointers to all the information you could want about the South of France's favourite sport.

Boules (specifically pétanque, which has pretty much overwhelmed the old jeu provençal) is the "national sport" of Provence.

The rules are available in English.

Selected Websites

The Official Website of the British Pétanque Association.
Pétanque.org.
New Zealand Pétanque Association.
The Finnish Pétanque Association (in Finnish - also English Page).
A Swedish magazine called Bouleptanque.
Nederlandse Jeu de Boules Bond (in Dutch).
Fédération Française de Pétanque & Jeu Provençal (in French)
Les Boules Cloutées (in English, French and German).
Le Pastis et la Pétanque (English version).
Team Leca Pétanque Var based Petanque (website in French)

Equipment

Obut (in French).
Le Juge (English page).

If you want to build a terrain de boules

There's some information in English here.
A thorough description in French, with visuals and a full materials listing can be found here.

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