French Life-expat France

Ahhh, the peace of autumn. The last holidaymakers have gone until the spring, and the only sound to be heard is the tractors beavering away in the neighbouring fields.
I say autumn, but the weather here is more like summer. For weeks now, the weather has just been getting better every day, and I suspect it [...]

I’m a bit stressed out at the moment, which is why I haven’t posted for a while. Lack of focus, legs like jelly, staring sadly out of the window, you get the idea.
What brought on this terrible state of affairs? Well, my hardy bicycle seems to have decided it wants to stay in the shed [...]

Well it has taken five years but we have finally done it. Motivated by hearing tales of one of the best ever years for ceps (a type of edible mushroom if you didn’t know) we went searching in our own little woodland and lo and behold we actually found a couple of kilogrammes of them.
Because [...]

(For actual advice about marketing and advertising your own gite or holiday rental property you might prefer to read our later entry at gite marketing.)
Funnily enough I do have a life apart from running gites and generally lazing about.
So today, I haven’t got time to tell you the anecdote about the boy at our daughter’s [...]