Arrondissement de Saint-Jean-d’Angély

So an early start and down to grab the train to Gatwick - met some dodgy guy at the station, hope you had a good day Simon.
After what seemed a very short flight we landed at Bordeaux airport. Having taken next to no luggage we flew through passport control and out to collect our hire car.
Don’t ever book your hire car with Gold Car despite how highly they are recommended by EasyJet!! Loads of add on prices once you get to the booth!!
Anyhow, in our extremely roomy Fiat 500 we headed north out of Bordeaux on the N10 towards Angoulême stopping briefly for a ham and cheese baguette, a sharing big bag of crisps and some pop.
An hour or so after passing Angoulême we came off the N10 and headed North East towards Romagne for our first appointment. On route we had a sing along to Kelly Jones as we admired the countryside and huge amounts of sky in all directions. (Apologies now for Teresa’s singing in the video 🥴)
Romagne is a fairly small village with a bar, boulangerie, hairdressers, church and Mairie building - and not a great deal else.
After a couple of coffee’s in the bar we waited at the church to meet Alison. A three minute drive around the corner following Alison took us to the first house.
A five bed house which is effectively an old house and slightly newer house combined. A huge barn, a smaller barn, small out building formerly use for hens and and another small outbuilding formerly used for pigs. A lovely amount of land which wrapped entirely around the buildings, and included a small wood and numerous fruit trees.
The main house was like an Aladdin’s cave once inside, with rooms off of rooms and numerous extra areas of space which could be converted. The newer part of the house had been lived in by an elderly lady who has passed. The other half of the house had been unused for some considerable time, and in a worse state of repair than the first part.
All of the house would need work, and realistically too much work for the two of us. It would take us a huge amount of time to complete the house entirely, and that doesn’t include the outbuilding and other areas of work.
We came away and decided the house as a whole was too big, we would take the land and outbuildings with a smaller house at the drop of a hat.
Back in the 500 we drove South West the country route to Crezieres and our cute cozy cottage called La Petite Maison.
After booking a
In and a brief matter with Amanda we headed back to the local town of Chef Boutonné for some food. We grabbed foodstuffs for tomorrow and then dropped into Jos Pizzeria in the main square. Teresa stayed very Italian and had Lasagne and some red wine whilst ventured for the less obvious choice of Curry Pizza and beer. Stuffed full we returned to La Petite Maison, grabbed another glass of wine and a beer and called it a day sat In front of the blazing wood burner!

We ended the day still feeling like excited children!!Lue lisää