Amazingly, we have been in our new home for 4 months! We moved in on the 27 July although our furniture arrived w/c 17th but we decided to take our time and slowly unpack and get everything perfect before we officially moved in. The last 4 months has seen us working through our snagging list […]
We get the keys for our new house one month today – on Tuesday 4 July – two days after we get back from a quick weekend in London to see Phil Collins. Mum is meeting us in London and flying back with us for a 10 day holiday. We had hoped she would be […]
The ski season has finished and spring has well and truly arrived in the village. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, yellow daffodils and primroses are everywhere and the sun is shining. Well, it was until yesterday when it decided to snow! The Beaufort cows were happily grazing on the lush green grass across […]
A lot has happened in the house since my last blog post. The underfloor heating and concrete screed was laid and we were forbidden to go into the house for 10 days which was torture. But what a huge difference it made to have all the wires and cables covered up. We even have underfloor […]
We have been living in St Martin for over a month already. Time is just flying past. We have attended the weekly site meetings on Tuesdays and visited the house each weekend – when the workers aren’t there – to check progress and have questions ready for the following week’s meeting. The house is progressing […]
On Wednesday 28 December we arrived back in France. It was 9.30 pm when we walked through the door of our apartment so we had to wait until the following morning before we could see our new house. We had been sent weekly photos from Serge so we knew it was all watertight with its […]
It had been a month since we were last in France and attended a site meeting although we couldn’t resist driving up to see the house when we arrived the day before. Of course we had seen photos taken by Serge and Marc-Alain but its not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. […]
This week’s site meeting wasn’t an official meeting as Nathalie and Marc-Alain are on their summer holidays for 2 weeks. We really just wanted to have a chance to see it before we headed back to the UK on Friday. We met Serge who walked us around the site and we discussed the level that […]
We got the fright of our lives when we walked up to site and saw a 3 storey big yellow tube thing sitting in our drive way. We were informed that this was a cement mixer! We have since been telling everyone that it’s a piece of modern art. We were also happy to see […]
We missed the site visit on Tuesday 26 July as we were picking Mum up from Geneva airport – she was coming for a 10 day holiday – but took a run up to show her the house on our way home. The following day we were sent homework by email and spent a good […]
We couldn’t believe it – we have walls! The builders had done so much in the last week. Our house is now up to the height of our ground floor. Most of what they have done will eventually be underground but it was exciting all the same. Serge said that he cycled past the other […]
We arrived in St Martin de Belleville on Monday 11 July but instead of going to the apartment we kept driving up the road to see our new house in Villarabout. We arrived at lunchtime when everyone was on their lunch break so were able to spy on the work without being spotted. It was […]
After a lot of deliberation we have decided to call our new home in France – Les 5 Arbres (Five Trees). At the moment there is one tree on our plot of land but sadly we are going to have to cut it down as it is extremely tall, too close to our house and […]
Our new home in France - July 2016 to ?
