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…
Where are we, Heaven? The earth reaches to a point, out stretched jagged rock, where houses cling to see the blue green Mediterranean Sea below. Such angelic beauty can only be created by a higher power. That is this southern spot on Cinque Terre called Portovenere. The Palazzatta of fortress houses was built to defend…
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,…
Travelling with kids can be a daunting proposition but once mastered is a cinch. People often tell me they cannot travel until their kids are older. Or that travelling with kids is too difficult and stressful and would rather stay home. Or packing for travelling with kids is a nightmare even to think about, let…
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…
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Lord of the flies The first time I saw a wild boar was on our first day on our very first visit to France. We were zipping along the one lane twisty road at high speed, heading towards my friend’s home high in the Pyrenees mountains. I remember the…