Malestroit & Rochefort-en-Terre
2025年10月28日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Slightly like a beauty pagent, both villages have been previous winners in the 'plus beau village de France' - they are both very beautiful. Malestroit though, has gone for the authentic liveableもっと詳しく
Buying a house in France
2025年10月28日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The 'actual' reason for our trip to France, was not to eat and drink way too much, but to fulfill the lifelong ambition of buying a little house as a base for annual francophile excursions.
Amongstもっと詳しく
旅行者Let me know when you close on the house. I have my tool belt and powers tools ready to travel!!! Congratulations on the house. I know it was tough to eat and drink your way to finding a new home, but I know you two were up to the challenge!!!
Which House ??
2025年10月28日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Mais bien sûr,..ça devait toujours être Fontgombault! We immediately loved the house, village and wider Le Blanc, Indre area. Situated in the parc naturel régional de la Brenne on the banks of theもっと詳しく
Menhirs, Dolmens, Obelix & Alex
2025年10月29日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Remains of ancient civilizations visible all across Brittany. Arrived in Quimper in the pouring rain so we hunkered down in our little apartment. Alex tried to entice a furry friend in for a visit heもっと詳しく
Concarneau, Bretange
2025年10月30日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Beautiful little fortified fishing village. The Breton Blue and White flies more prominently than le tricolor in these parts!
Breton history
2025年10月30日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
The 'Oust' of France (the West) is so staunchly proud of all things Breton, dress, culture, the gloomy weather! They build'em tough here, kind of like west coasters back in NZ.
Alex felt right at homeもっと詳しく
La Toussaint (Halloween)
2025年10月31日, フランス ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Quimper is afloat with gouls and ghosts tonight. Not a traditional celebration, but combined with All Saints Day here in France. Our window is open and the light on indicating we are here for trickもっと詳しく
Weekend in Quimper
2025年11月1日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Late get up, shopping at the market, coffee and quiz in the town square, a drive out to seaside village of Bénodet (cute Akaroa vibe), baguettes at the beach, and then chased home by a thunderstorm.
Binic - Etables sur Mer
2025年11月2日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Staying in a tiny wee Gite on a cliff top overlooking the Baie de Saint Brieuc looking out towards Jersey. Very cute village with loads of qaui side bars and restaurants looking out onto the Harbourもっと詳しく
Plat du Jour
2025年11月3日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
A long lunch at a seaside Bistro. Bonvent in Binic is relaxed, has great food, and even pulled up an online tutorial to try and find out about the ubiquitous flat white ( mysteriously absent inもっと詳しく
Rennes
2025年11月4日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Cute accomodation, if not a little long-in-the-tooth. Built in 1778, so a wee bit wibbly wobbly!
We are staying in the Centre Ville historic area, most buildings here are 17th C, so cool to walk outもっと詳しく
Mont Saint Michel, Normandie
2025年11月5日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Visited the iconic MSM today. Opted to walk the 3km causeway to access this tourist magnet. This tiny island 'cite' receives 3 million tourists a year. It's beautiful but very touristy. Fortunately,もっと詳しく
Fougeres, Normandie
2025年11月5日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
I've developed a bit of a crush on castles with 'witch hat' towers. Definitely got my fill of fantasy rapunzel vibes from Châteaux de Fougeres.
Saint Malo
2025年11月6日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Seaside promanading. Heading to Jersey tomorrow for a game of darts and an English pint of Beer.
Vitré
2025年11月6日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
On the boarder of Brittany and Normandie, the architecture is a real mix of Breton and the half-timbered Normandie buildings, fascinating walking the streets of this ancient town.
Jersey, UK
2025年11月8日, ジャージー ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
An overnight excursion to St Helier, staying in a Greek Taverna, go figure! Went to sleep to the sound of crashing waves, just like Ngawi! Pie 🥧 Mash, and mushy peas for lunch. Visited the WIIもっと詳しく
Back home,... in the Loire Valley.
2025年11月9日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Sampling the realities of Châteaux life. We are staying at the magnificent Châteaux de Saint Loup, near the village of Airvault. It is a lifetime of work for Sophie the owner. The Châteaux aloneもっと詳しく
Châteaux Saint-Loup-Lamaire
2025年11月10日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Today we explored the Châteaux with owner Sophie. Sophie's husband (who is sadly very ill at the moment) has a saying, which is something like," Owning a Châteaux,..the worries are great, but theもっと詳しく
French Admin
2025年11月14日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Feeling really French with our Credit Agricole bank account ( the farmers bank). Only took a truckload of documents and two appointments - the French sure like a bit of red tape and hoop jumping!もっと詳しく
House update.
2025年11月15日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Long-story, short,.. we withdrew our offer for Fontgombault. Today we have progressed an offer on a very different property. The house (Barn) is ancient (circa 1475) built into the town ramparts,もっと詳しく
Lost Cat
2025年11月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Turns out our cat that went missing from Shooting Butts Road in Martinborough actually just went on holiday to France and decided to stay.
Dead ringer for Durpy firmly installed on our bed!
Durpyもっと詳しく
Morning Walk, Airvault
2025年11月18日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
Brisk this morning! A heavy frost coating the village, but quickly disappearing now the sun has poked its head over the hills.
Airvault is located in a valley with surrounding hills, so lots of stairsもっと詳しく
The first step
2025年11月18日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Signing the 'Compromis de Vente', and then Acte de Vente.
Today we met with the vendor and Immobilier to sign the offer for Airvault. A great experience. Alex was awesome with his french, lots ofもっと詳しく
Châteaux de Oiron, Airvault
2025年11月19日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
If you want to keep favour with the King, build a swanky house, commission paintings depicting victory, and cover his rooms in gold, and invite him for parties. Châteaux Oiron is very impressive,もっと詳しく
旅行者I thought it was your wee barn. Yeah right! Not quite! When will you start work on your wee barn? The bach in Ngawi is amazing. We've had such a relaxing afternoon. xx
