Month: November 2023

The One That Got Away…

.Reading time 15 minutes.

I woke up filled with anticipation…but first, breakfast! Believe it or not, this has been an acquired taste. 😉 I remember my first time in Europe. My mother saved up child support for months and months and took my sister and me on a 17-day bus trip across 7 countries. It was a very eye-opening […]

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Making our way to the Centre-Val de Loire

.Reading time 10 minutes.

It was barely a month since my first trip with Jen, and now Ralph would get to experience the ups and downs of house-hunting in France.  Anyone who knows Ralph knows that he doesn’t get excited easily. He’s impatient and finds tasks like this frustrating. If he had his way, he’d buy the first thing […]

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The House Hunt Begins Again

.Reading time 5 minutes.

After this first house-hunting trip with Jen, the floodgates opened. I was ready to continue the search, this time with more knowledge of the process and how to organize a trip.  Seeing homes in person made me realize that there were patterns to uncover. For example, there were certain home types I could search for […]

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When things go wrong…they go WRONG

.Reading time 16 minutes.

Well, well, well. What a way to wrap up the trip! There’s a reason “mayhem” is one of my blog tags, and now I have an impressive collection of examples to share with you! After we finished dinner in Avignon, we walked by a fabulous building with a bouncer and a red carpet. TOO COOL […]

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