June 30th was Escale en Canal Lirou – Port de Capestang. You may remember how much we enjoyed last year’s festivities, and stayed up late eating and drinking while the musician entertained us! This year the Sunday was full of free activities. The event started at 14:30 with fanfare, followed by a treasure hunt for…
Test out the waters! Why not rent in the area we wish to buy in. This advice has been great, but finding a rental house has been interesting to say the least. Most websites list short-term rentals, holiday homes for the 3 – 7 day traveler. There is a hole in the market for what…
How far is the journey? As deep as it is long! My layers have shed, my true self exposed. There is a heeling process when experiencing so much change. I say goodbye to my former self. The other person was here for so long, and to realise that it wasn’t the authentic me, makes me…
Narbonne is located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France and is linked to the nearby Canal du Midi and the Aude River by the Canal de la Robine, which runs through the centre of town. Narbonne has a population of over 52,000 and is slightly larger than Carcassonne, making it the largest commune in…
December 14th 2012 was my 39th birthday, and I have made a list of the forty places I wish to visit over the course of the next year before turning the big four oh and specifically what I would like to see and do there. Last year when we started our adventure in Europe,…
For Alfonz’s birthday on this soggy Sunday, we decided to celebrate indoors with Spanish Seafood Paella. Ingredients Olive Oil 1 Onion finely chopped 1 Red Pepper cored and finely chopped 2 Carrots finely chopped 3 Garlic Cloves Crushed 2 Diced Tomatoes Salt & Pepper 1/2 tsp. 200 grams Petit Peas 1-2 Cups Long Grain Rice…
Here is our second experience with reality TV, House Hunters – Where Are They Now? A branch off the original ueber popular TV series – House Hunters, where people search for a home and the host Suzanne Whang narrates, as the nail-biting audience tries to guess which home the people will decide between three options….
Another tick off my goal list! I am methodical creature, not sure why, but I am. Even my memories line up in chronological order to sift through at will. It is strange to people that don’t function that way, so I’m told, but I have no idea how other people’s brains work. I wanted to…
What is so amazing about going deep into a cave on the side of a mountain? For us it is to imagine just how long it took to form. At La Grotte de Clamouse one part of the cave is over a million years old; while some mineral formations are 100,000 years old for a…
We dropped off our kids with my wonderful cousin Zsolti and his wife Detti while we traveled to France to check out possible real estate. In my mind I couldn’t have left them with anyone or anywhere else. My fondest childhood memories are of my Auntie Ilonka’s farm. Chickens and ducks run free, horse and…