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here's an update about our living-room. as a reminder, because i've been away from this blog for long (but hopefully i'll post more regularly this winter) you will also see the before pictures. before : after :this is the corner seen far right where [Read More]

So far, across the board it's been predicted that Sarkozy will have a positive effect on the property market in France. Obviously, whenever there is a change of power there is the hope that all that is wrong will become right, but in terms of real es [Read More]

More EDF work. Remember how they didn't bring a ladder to do our work? Well, they were supposed to disconnect the old wire that led from Alex's parent's house to our house (see photo). The connection was made pretty high up and there was no way that [Read More]

EDF came today, well, they technically aren't EDF but builders who EDF outsources to. Anyway, they came at 10am and finished at 3:30pm. Pretty good considering they left at 11:30am for LUNCH! I thought it was too funny to get mad about. 10:45 rolled [Read More]

I haven't done a post about bathrooms in France yet because I'm lucky enough to have only had to use the one at Poitiers airport, which is bearable. Reading Why Travel to France I came across The Bathroom Diaries that all travellers should have bookm [Read More]

First and most importantly the banana bread (one of many this week):Some of the electrics:Some before and after shots:July 2006June 2007Now imagine what next summer will look like!We planted two of these, making a total of 4 Virginia Creepers (not r [Read More]

Ok, not BRAND new. We got it for 10 euros (!!) at an emmaus. [Read More]

Found this article, via Sam de Bretagne, entitled 'Hilary equals France' by Bill Maher. Pretty funny article. Except I have my reservations about the health care system. It is an amazing system but the French mentality towards patient care is slightl [Read More]

In an attempt to get more photos up, I thought I'd start with some of the nicer items in the house. We are particularly happy about the two fireplaces that are pretty intact.Downstairs :We're pretty sure that it's dated 1847....Detail:Upstairs firepl [Read More]

One of the things that we found really frustrating when getting ready to buy the house in France was opening a bank account. In the end we went with Credit Agricole because it was the cheapest. Not the easiest though. They asked for tons of paper wor [Read More]

In the summer of 2006 A. and I bought a little house in Loudun, which is in the Poitou-Charentes region in France. Go almost all the way down to the middle, then West until you see it.A little old lady had lived in it since the end of WWII and hadn't [Read More]