On one of the warmest days of the year so far, we sit and open gifts in the kitchen, with the sun streaming in! Today's beautiful, thoughtful presents include ingenious cabbage moth repellants, wonderful books, useful bread oven gadgets, sumptuous fabrics and art...
Today we open gifts in the kitchen, as part of our series of showing you different corners of the chateau...
To see some of the Chateau de LaLande Scholarship Interviews on the ‪@villiotifashion‬ channel, click here:
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We will be donating a weekend stay at the Chateau de Lalande to the winner!
As promised, here is the list of the 'Most Beautiful Chateau Wineries'
1. Chateau Pape Clement in Pessac
2. Chateau Roubine in Lorgues
3. Chateau de Pitray in Saint Emilion
4. Chateau Cos d'Estournel in Saint Estephe
5. Chateau Lafite-Rothschild in Pauillac
6. Chateau Mouton-Rothschild in Pauillac
7. Chateau Canet in the Languedoc Roussillon
8. Chateau Sainte-Roseline in Les Arcs
9. Chateau des Demoiselles in La Motte
10. Domaine de Chevalier in Leognan
In 'Cadeaux at the Chateau', all of the inhabitants of the Chateau de Lalande gather together to open beautiful gifts that people have sent from all over the world. All of the monetisation from these videos will be donated to a different charity each month. KZfaq earnings fluctuate wildly each month, as ad revenue changes throughout the year. Here are the charities that we've donated to so far:
July 2020:
British Heart Foundation UK (in memory of my father) €634
August 2020:
Alzheimer's Research UK (in memory of all of the residents of my parents' nursing homes) €350
September 2020:
Prostate Cancer Foundation (in memory of Selmar's father) €1255
October 2020:
Medecins sans Frontieres (chosen by my mother to support vaccinations in Africa) €942 (equivalent to 426 cholera vaccinations)
November & December 2020 & Jan 2021:
A Lalande Fashion Scholarship for a student at the Villioti Fashion Institute in South Africa €5500
I used to show the gifts as part of 'The Chateau Diaries' episodes, but you're all so very generous that we have many gifts, and if we spent the episodes opening them, we wouldn't be able to show you other aspects of chateau life! So, for those of you who enjoy watching presents being opened, and as a way to thank those of you who were kind enough to send them, I've made this new channel. Every week we will film your beautiful gifts whilst enjoying afternoon tea or aperitif together.
It is very important to me that you know that we in no way expect anyone to send us gifts. I would like to go further than that and add that, if doing so will put you in any financial difficulty whatsoever, please, please do not send us anything. Knowing that you join us by watching 'The Chateau Diaries' gives us all an enormous boost. But for those of you who have sent these incredibly thoughtful gifts, I hope that seeing us open them gives you a fraction of the joy that you've given us, and that by monetising this channel for charity we can pass on that joy to others 💖💖💖
If you would like to see more of our life at the chateau, please go to our main 'Chateau Diaries' channel:
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