4th – 8th December 2016 After a rather eventful end to our trip back to the UK, which involved us pulling out of one of the tenancy agreements at last minute and having to re-market the property, a hospital day procedure for my aunt ending up with being admitted and having emergency surgery and a…
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6 wks, 2 flat refurbishments,2 tenants secured & a motorhome test run completed….
Firstly apologies for our long absence from our blog, as the title of this blog suggests we have been more than a little preoccupied recently. On 14th October we completed on a property that we had 1st spotted on line whilst in France back in August time, a big Victorian house which had been split into…
Useful Or Not – With Hindsight What We Will Take & Leave Behind Next Time
Is this the million dollar question – it’s certainly one we’d have like someone to give us the answer to before we set off on our travels the 1st time. What exactly do we need to take and what do we leave behind. Now of course our list may be different to yours, but there…
In Limbo
Having taken Boris back to our dealers on 5th September we telephoned last week for a progress report and were told that he was likely to be with them for around another 6 weeks. This is due to the fact that they are having to wait for a replacement habitation door to be delivered from…
We need a holiday …..
After just 19 days back in the UK and we are both feeling like we need a holiday!! It must be all the partying whilst catching up with family and friends that’s taking it’s toll as we haven’t even started any real work yet. It feels like we’ve had an incredibly busy couple of weeks,…
Catching up back in Blighty
We’d booked an early ferry back from Calais to try and avoid any issues at the port. We were lucky and didn’t encounter any problems (although I was more than a little horrified to see the size of the “jungle”) and even managed to get straight onto an earlier ferry despite having booked the cheapest…
The Last Dash
It’s been a tough decision to make but a few weeks ago we decided to end “chapter 1” of our trip earlier than planned and head back to the UK. Our original intention was to be away from the UK for a year, however several things have transpired in the meantime that have led us…
Family Reunion in Carnac
We consider ourselves very privileged to be able to travel like this, if there is one downside it’s that we have to go without seeing friends and family for long periods of time, therefore when we found out that Paul’s brother David, his wife Susie and our 2 beautiful nieces Ruby & Olivia had booked…
Further flavours of France
August 2016 Our next destination was les Sables d’Olonne which has a paid for aire (46.497288-1.775243) near to the centre at 15.4o euro per night it was more expensive than we’d been used to paying and actually although it had electric points (if you were lucky enough to get one) it didn’t have any views so…
Island Life – Ile D’Oleron
After a brief conflab we decided to head across the bridge from the mainland to Ile D’Oleron the largest of Frances islands other than Corsica. We headed near to the top of the island and parked on a free aire at La Bree Les Bains (46.00827 1.356998). It was the most picturesque parking spot but…
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