BarbaraP

Can anyone suggest where three OAPs (still fit) can go grape picking in France this September please?

Ka Ora!

Welcome to the Forum, I suspect there would be a few places on the med coast around Banyuls sur mer although it might get a bit hot for you there to be out all day.

BEVS

Kia Ora from New Zealand BarbaraP.
Obviously, I'm not in France at all but saw your post and thought I'd say Hi anyway.

Have you considered WWoofing. ( click the link) We have people come here to NZ, under that scheme,to do grape picking etc.

dmu

Hi, "HelpX" is similar to Wwoofing, but be aware that, however fit you are, grape-picking is back-breaking and the sun can be blisteringly hot in September in the Languedoc-Roussillon!

BarbaraP

Thamks for all the replies. We saw something on TV recently but lost the contact details. It was working for 4 hours a day only - presumably before the heat kicks in. The "pickers" actually sit on stolls, fill a basket and them simply move the stoll along the line and repeat this for the 4 hours. The baskets are removed by others from time to time. What we want to do is go this year to see it for ourselves and then if we find something suitable, go for 10 days back next year for a longer period.

AntoineBenariac

Any preference for the region?

North-East : Champagne, Jura, Alsace...
South West : Bordeaux, Cahors, Languedoc
South East : Rhone, Burgundy, Provence...

I might have a fex suggestions

BarbaraP

Antoine - no preference at all actually we are open to suggestions and advice from all.

Novocastrian

I'd look at Champagne (the region not the bubbly). Not so ruddy hot.

BarbaraP

Thanks - will do.