in search of the kiwi

Hopefully I'm back blogging now.  It's been a while and a lot has changed since I last wrote back in June 2016. There have been...

ten days in and I find myself unexpectedly in an internet cafe, having read loads of comments on my last post asking how I am getting on, so...

On the 26th February I signed my deal and am on the way to being a property owner in France.   Sealed and delivered, this morning the ...

I have a date. No, a date for signing the initial agreement for my land.  Not a date date, though that would be good too. On the 2...

Having Percy is great, I can just head off for the day and do as I please, without begging or, borrowing a car or trying to work out how ...

November 27th. A day, this year, that I wasn’t particularly looking forward to.  In the past it had been a day of celebration, my Mothers’...

So that’s a ‘no’ for all those plots that have brought me to the conclusions above, which is all but one of them I have visited so far. Th...

Still, we got there in the day.  I had sent a text to say we were on our way in and as we arrived, stopped to send another, Peter emerged ...

I found some land on the internet.  It looked like a great deal, and not that far from the chalet, so I went and had a nose.  I recognised...

Since leaving the barn in the mountains, we visited the market at Cauteret, way up on the mountains, a summer tourist resort and ski st...

Julien, Vivien and I have been traveling together now for a couple of weeks, we are getting to know each other better, having spent hours...

view from our new location.   I climbed one of those distant peaks a couple of years ago.   I have moved on again.  I have no idea...

 The yurt is now ready for guests, it looks so inviting with the shadows filtering through the canvas walls and the sound of the breeze...