Why you should visit this village in France

You need different types of friends. With whom you can cry, with whom you laugh, with whom you gossip (nothing inhuman is foreign to me) and then you also have friends with a boat and friends with a pied-à-terre. You need those too.

For Spain, I was already set because my best friend Anna has two amazing apartments for rent there. Close to Alicante, you can get there in a gentle breeze and then sit in the sun. Interested? Just click here.

Now there is even more good news because my TV friend Asjha is opening a chambre d’hôte in France. Aside from the fact that her house, an old pharmacy in the heart of the village of Les Quercy in the Dordogne, is beautiful, the garden is large and the room itself is characteristic and spacious, you really just have to go there to meet Asjha and Ed. She is my friend with whom I can laugh. And when I am sad, she is the best to cheer you up. My daughter once scored quite poorly on a CITO test which I (the poor child was five, but still) was quite upset about. “If there was a beauty test, she would have been the very best,” Asjha immediately said. “And she has very beautiful hair.” “And what does such a test or exam really say? I went to home economics and still turned out quite nice.”

You can say that. Asjha was the editor-in-chief of RTL Boulevard, of various programs with Linda de Mol and worked in recent years as a creative consultant for IDtv. I mean.

In the past, we worked together as editor-in-chief at RTL Boulevard and there was always something going on every day. A murderous celebrity (I exaggerate but there has really been security at the studio because someone was not happy with a statement from Albert), a complaining Albert, a photocopier that was always jammed at the moment I had to print my scripts to run to the studio. Then Asjha would always come to cheer me up. “Shall I dance a little out of tune for you?” And then I had to laugh again.

During an evaluation meeting with a TV big shot, Asjha was told that ‘the boss in question was very happy with her but somehow couldn’t really love her…’. Asjha had her answer ready. “I didn’t know that my job description also included giving my supervisor a wet cross.”

That Asjha then. Sweet, smart, quick, and incredibly witty Asjha. I would say go there: For that amazing room and that village like you could also find on a postcard from 1892, for the breakfast and the four-course dinner that Asjha and Ed (who loves good food so much that he brings his own knife, the Laguiole, to restaurants) but especially for her jokes. And if you give Asjha a glass of wine (she doesn’t need much) she might tell you some nice gossip or juicy stories about ‘the people on TV’. She is full of them.

Or email to la.sympa.campagnac@gmail.com. Just stay away from the weekend of July 11 and 12 because then I’ll be there.