Wednesday 1st September 2010, 4.00am, the three of us (3rd being Coco our darling cat) leave south west London for south west France!
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| Au revoir Angleterre |
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| La Foret www.laforet-estang.com |
16 hours later we arrive in Estang at the beautiful, serene La Foret where we will be spending the next year working, managing and marketing. Vive La france is what they say and definitely what we will be doing!
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| Le Pehaou, home sweet home |
We moved into our stunning cottage (a 10minute drive from La Foret, just outside the sleepy village of Laujuzan) - Le Pehaou and we have been living here for just over 2 weeks and are settling in to the French country side very well. We have a peripheral view of rolling hills, forests and on a clear day we can even see the Pyrenees - which is just breahtaking and yes we are still pinching ourselves. Oh and we got some sweet wheels too!
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| French kissing |
Coco set foot outside about ten days ago and is loving it. At first a bit timid, but soon got used to green grass under her paws again. She even brought us her first offering the other night - the tiniest mouse you ever did see. Thankfully her manners are good and she left it dead on the doormat outside, then proceeded to parade around like she had won the lottery! She has ditched the london stresses, us too and taken a few deep breaths of fresh pure country air, it's the stuff you can get high on. For now we've not made too many friends, the local man who serves pizza in the local supermarket carpark on Friday's and our neighbours dog - Sheepy, who seems to love us already!!
A very busy and hectic first couple of weeks getting stuck in literally. Our days are spent harvesting figs, walnuts, basil (which I have made into jars of homemade pesto), mowing, weeding and tidying the 5 acres and more at La Foret. Jon cleans the pool and sits on the tractor every so often too. Our first week of guests went very well and our culinary skills were put to the test.
Hot wheels for hot people! Love the photo of you guys with Spider & Coco. Glad to see nothings changed & Jon's still partial to peanut butter & puppies xxx
ReplyDeletelooks so much fun guys - can't wait to come visit! you both look so chilled already! the french countryside air is obviously agreeing with you!! xxx
ReplyDeleteIt looks so beautiful!! I bet you stay another year. Such a good thing to do at this time in your lives. Great pictures and a perfect way to share the experience. We will look forward to more photos.
ReplyDeleteLove from John, Lisa, Anna and Melissa in California. xxxx