Meeting fellow expats who find their best lives in the Languedoc has inspired me to write a series. Creative, interesting and thought provoking, I hope you enjoy reading about the people who move to the region and what they do for a living, as much as I enjoy writing about them. I hope they inspire you to live your best life.
Lucky me, I get to meet some of the most innovative, fascinating people in the world, who choose to live their lives in southern France. They come from all walks of life, from many different countries, but somehow they manage to find their ingenuity to start business, an…
“Everyone should have a blog. It is the most DEMOCRATIC thing.” Jessica Cutler Three reasons you should never blog: Money, Notoriety, and Traffic. Money: If you are lucky, you can generate enough cash with Google ads to pay for your hosting and a few office supplies. Of course, there are indirect ways of making money, when clients…
TRAVEL IS A JOURNEY, AND THE JOURNEY ITSELF IS HOME. MATSUO BASHO Many of us have the notion of travel being the best form of education. Not only can we learn from visiting historical sites, experiencing diverse cultures and tasting novel food and wine, but it can also shape who we are. The journey itself can…
‘Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.’ Michael Crawford Women want their fairy-tale ending. We believe that once we find our mate that the last line of the…
In the days when my friend Anne was a child living in Capestang, she would be playing in her grandmother’s garden near the canal when she would hear the long repeated horn of a canal barge. This signaled the locals to stop what they were doing and run to the stone bridge, where many neighbours who also heard the…
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” Plautus There is something special about Oenophiles, those talented among us that are devoted to wine, who can describe a vintage in countless different ways. They have such highly acute senses, that they can pick-up on minute traces, those fragrances and flavours that the average person simply misses….
Only in this technical day and age, could I know someone for four years and have only just met them. When we first moved to France I was an active blogger, posting content over 1500 words three-four times a week. As we explored the region, I had so much to say about our new life in…
My Expat Life – Eco Man I met Richard Neville and his lovely wife Linda when their neighbours were selling their home and fortunately for me, they had the key. Of course most people in Capestang already know who they are, such is life in a typical southern French village where separation is about two…
‘I thought reality TV would be the biggest success of my life, or the biggest mistake!’ Bethenny Frankel Have you seen these three culprits around Capestang? Meet Mat, Alicia and Noel, the House Hunters International film crew! You might be wondering, what the hell is going on in our village with cameras everywhere! Rest assured it is just a…
‘The Midi fires the senses; makes your hand agile, your eye sharp, your brain clearer,’ wrote Van Gogh. People seem to feed off an energy in the Languedoc that translates to creative endeavors. Is it a coincidence that so many us live here; entrepreneurs from all over the world who have found their home in the warm…