Family Lifestyle Blog In France : Travel, Food and Flowers
People often ask “where are you from?” when they first meet someone. We like to know where people call home. Get some insight as to who they are, where they have been, why they are here today if it’s not “home”. It is a question I never quite know how to answer, and usually end up giving a people a small history background to my life…
Over the years, I’ve come to realise that home is far more complex than just being a place where you come from.
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I remember writing a similar post back in 2017 : A New Beginning, or perhaps it was a new adventure? Where I announced officially on my floristry website that Barry and I had decided to relocate to France. As such, it meant closing down my business, packing everything we didn’t sell and starting a new life in France.
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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!
Continue ReadingToday, 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!
Continue ReadingToday, on the “Families Moving Abroad” series, Lauren and Martin share their journey from the USA to Norway.
Continue ReadingToday, on the “Families Moving Abroad” series, Jack and Rebecca share their journey from New Zealand to the Charente region in France.
Continue ReadingI’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.
Continue ReadingWe 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.
Continue ReadingI still remember arriving in France. I remember our first few days in the Charente, specifically the first day in Ruffec. It was March. It was grey, windy and raining. I felt tired and grumpy, after a long, stressful drive from the Alps to the Charente in terrible weather conditions. Despite my bad mood, I tried to put on a brave face as the cameraman for “A New Life In The Sun” filmed us walking about. He must have picked up on my bad mood though as seemed to focus mostly on Barry whilst I tried to keep the kids quiet. The excitement of the previous few days had been replaced by tiredness and the reality of what we had done.
Continue ReadingI’m excited to welcome Sarah to the blog, as part of our “Families Moving Abroad” series. As with most people I meet locally, I met Sarah via Instagram and our families got together over the Christmas 2020 break. for a lovely wintery walk. I have loved following their journey on Instagram, from South Wales to France. Sarah tells us about their journey and their new start in France.
