Family Lifestyle Blog In France : Travel, Food and Flowers
One of the main worries parents have when considering moving abroad, is how will the children cope with the move, especially if they’re not too keen on the move in the first place. When I discovered “Me and My Big Move” on Instagram, I immediately though it was a good idea and could have used something like that when I had a very reluctant little girl refusing to move to France!
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Today, Katie shares her family’s journey from the USA to Mexico as part of the “Families Moving Abroad” series. And they’re already planning their next move too!
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France may be my homeland, but there is still so much of it I am yet to discover! This includes the Alps, where I grew up and where I have enjoyed exploring further since having my children. Revisiting familiar places I grew up in as well as discovering new places with Barry and the children never fails to make me happy. Here are some of my favourite spots in the Alps and nearabouts.
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Today, on the “Families Moving Abroad” series, Lauren and Martin share their journey from the USA to Norway.
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We took a little winter break to recover from a very busy Summer, and well, to wrap our heads around Covid. But we are back in business : the Emerald gite is now open for bookings!
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Today, on the “Families Moving Abroad” series, Jack and Rebecca share their journey from New Zealand to the Charente region in France.
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I’m so pleased to share Becky’s story as part of our Families Moving Abroad series. Once again, I met Becky via Instagram as we followed each other’s accounts and got chatting during the first lockdown, back in April 2020. Since then, I have loved following Becky’s daily French life on Instagram, and can’t wait to stay in their campsite when it’s up and running. Today, she shares her family’s journey on moving to France.
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I am lucky to have family members living all over the place. Whilst it makes it tricky for day to day catching up, it means we have a great excuse to go on mini (or not so mini adventures) when going to see them. My brother and his family live in Metz, and we spent a week there a few years ago whilst we were househunting in the Charente.
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We arrived in the Charente late at night on the 11th March 2018, after a long drive from the Alps. We had flown in from Bristol the previous day to Grenoble, where we stayed overnight with my dad. The drive had been long and stressful due to horrendous weather conditions. It also felt as though the excitement and the adrenaline of the previous days had been replaced with tiredness and the realisation of what we had just done. Our househunting journey in France had begun.
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Whether you have dreamt about it for years, or perhaps recent events have made you want to escape to France and start afresh, if you are looking to begin househunting in France here are some tips to get you started. Having viewed close to 30 properties before finding our French home, and currently working for an estate agent, I share some advice from our personal experience with you below.
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