Family Lifestyle Blog In France : Travel, Food and Flowers
Come stay with us in the Vienne, just a few minutes away from the Charente, our Jade gîte can sleep 5 people comfortably. The gîte is equipped for families, with lots available for grown ups and children alike.
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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.
Continue ReadingToday, on the “Families Moving Abroad” series, Jack and Rebecca share their journey from New Zealand to the Charente region in 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 ReadingWhether 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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