We have sold our home in France and are moving to Umbria next week… When we came to live here
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The “Common Market”
This is one of the saddest days of my life. I was born just twenty years after the end of
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Has it taken me 32 years and a move to France to realise that actually, I belong in the North
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I ran 10km for the first time this morning!! 10km! Me…the person who doesn’t “do” sport…! In mid-December I set
Continue readingOn Christmas morning…
I love it when it’s sunny on Christmas morning – it feels just right. Blue, blue skies, very still, cold…
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This is my 4th Christmas Eve in France – how fast time has passed since we arrived! Today was a
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We moved to France 8 months before the UK’s referendum on whether or not we should remain in the EU
Continue readingTwo houses, two countries, two years…
On 29 Oct 2013, at 10:11, ….. <…..@…solicitors.com> wrote: Completion of your purchase has taken place – The keys are
Continue readingI’m not Felicity Kendall
When I moved to rural France I had this idea of somehow becoming “the real me” again, after losing myself
Continue readingDriving towards our new life
On 28th October 2015 we were driving from Italy to France to start our new life. We had our elderly
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