We returned to France this week for our permanent move after a busy month in the UK getting our 12 month France visa, paperwork for customs for the removal company, as well as packing up the UK house and getting it ready for renting. Having managed large commercial office move projects for many years, I… Continue reading Moving Day
Wildlife and Hobbies
Joe read an article recently about the 10 most dangerous animals, etc in France and we seem to be ticking some of them off as we encounter wildlife nearby. I’d already mentioned that we’d seen deer in adjacent fields and on two recent mornings we have seen from a bedroom window a wild boar (no.… Continue reading Wildlife and Hobbies
Local Produce and neighbours
We’re discovering more about what we actually have on the land around the house. The previous owners planted a number of trees to supplement long-standing specimens and we have a variety of fruit trees including cherries, apples, pears, plums, walnuts and figs. So we will not go hungry and will have to learn pretty quickly… Continue reading Local Produce and neighbours
Tournon d’Agenais
So a bit about our local village this time. Surprisingly, although we have travelled quite a lot in this area, we seemed to have skirted the village on all sides on previous travels as neither of us could recall ever visiting it. The bastide village of Tournon d’Agenais sits at 260m up on a hill… Continue reading Tournon d’Agenais
Labourdette
We decided when looking for a house in France that it would be our permanent home rather than a holiday house, so we will be relocating our furniture and belongings from the UK to France and supplementing as required. There is administration to deal with to get set up in France and paperwork required to… Continue reading Labourdette
A new house
Well we’ve now signed our lives away on a house in France and it’s all a bit frightening! So first of all a bit about the house and area. During our travels in France over the past 4 years we’ve kept being drawn back to the Lot valley and surrounding areas and imagining what it… Continue reading A new house
And so another trip comes to an end…
We spent our last couple of days to the east of Dunkirk, not far from the Belgium border and in an area steeped in WWII history. We were staying near the dunes where British troops camped in early June 1940, awaiting evacuation back to England as part of Operation Dynamo. At low tide the wrecks… Continue reading And so another trip comes to an end…
WWI Discoveries – Joe Blogs
We’ve moved on from Normandy to the Picardy region and have travelled back in time over 100 years to the 21st April 2018. The town of Cappy on the River Somme, our base for a few days, was used by the infamous Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, and his flying circus during WWI.… Continue reading WWI Discoveries – Joe Blogs
Calvados War History
We spent some time last year at some of the WWII locations in Normandy , and Joe has done numerous trips previously based on his interest in military vehicles and motorbikes, but there are new places to discover and places that Joe is happy to return to. As we headed south in the Cotentin peninsula… Continue reading Calvados War History
Cotentin Peninsula
Our next stop took us into Normandy and we decided to explore the Cotentin peninsula, heading first up the west side. As usual we had some potential stopping places in mind but found that the larger towns and villages were not well set up for motorhomes so we kept heading north towards the Cap de… Continue reading Cotentin Peninsula